Re: Ethereal 0.99.0 and Windows ME
Gerald Combs <[email protected]>
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Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Gerald Combs wrote:
>> I've checked in a change to do this.
>>
> Well, the basic question remain.
>
> Support for Win 9x based systems are just crumbling away anywhere.
>
> GTK 2.8 doesn't work with it at all (PANGO requires NT+ as I understand
> it), WinPcap doesn't provide support for 9x systems any more (it may or
> may not work).
Microsoft isn't promising much support for ME after July 11:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=6519
Windows 95 and 98 support has long since been retired.
> So I don't know to handle this.
>
> An idea might be: We might want to keep the 9x compatibility as much as
> *we* can until the 1.0 release (and fix bugs as they are reported and if
> we *can* fix them) and drop any support for 9x beyond the 1.0 release.
>
> However, we can't really promise to support 9x at all, as the number of
> developers working on 9x systems seems to be around zero today ...
You can probably add NT 4.0 to the list.
> So what *we* could offer is to fix bugs that we *can* fix, but were "off
> hands" for bugs in the various libraries we use ...
Sounds reasonable.