Re: Windows XP support

"Ryan C. Gordon" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.sdl
Organization icculus.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> As I alluded to before, my approach is to support Win9x + IE5.5 (which
> provides Uniscribe). Customers who want to run my application on Win9x
> understand that they may need to install IE 5.5, which doesn't require
> any 'technical' knowledge. There is virtually nothing in my app which is
> Windows version specific.

Okay, I'm not _against_ SDL2 supporting Win9x, if we're just going to 
link against the same things we do now and some magical thing will make 
it work right on Win9x systems without any effort on our part; foisting 
this onto the user to solve with reasonable steps (if "install a 16 year 
old web browser on your 21 year old OS" counts as reasonable) is better 
than telling the user it just flatly doesn't work...but that being said, 
it's not anything I plan to spend time on.

I will accept reasonable patches for this, but I dunno, the definition 
of "reasonable" is pretty narrow right here.

--ryan.
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