Re: LiteStep on Vista

Bjoern Brembs wrote:
> Fellow 'Steppers,
> 
> I have recently come over a new laptop with Vista
> pre-installed. I will definitely not work without LiteStep,
> so I face the task of either installing XP (forfeiting, e.g.
> Office 2007) or dealing with hiccups in using LS.
> How usable is the very latest, unstable version under Vista?
> Has there been any significant progress since the last State
> of the Step in April, where it said: "Still, LiteStep 0.24.8
> should be usable on Vista. Maybe not the Betas, but the
> final release should."
> How far are you guys?
> 
> Thanks for keeping LiteStep up to date!
> 
> Bjoern

Hey,

As Tobbe pointed out, there are a ton of Vista-specific fixes in our 
CVS. Unfortunately I don't know how many (if any) of these will make the 
0.24.8 release, as development for that has been split off into a 
separate branch. If you want a test build you'll have to

a) compile it yourself
b) get someone to do nightlies
c) contact me on IRC or via mail =)

I hesitate posting a build on some website because I only have access to 
VS 2005 - which means the builds depend on different runtimes than our 
regular releases. I wouldn't even be surprised if the builds only ran on 
Win2k and up for that reason alone (not that it mattered much, but...).

Besides, there'd probably be a lot of confusion over 0.24.8 and these 
special builds. Any suggestions how to handle this?

-ilmcuts


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