Graham Leggett wrote:
Branko Čibej wrote:
I wish that were true. People use Subversion (client-only, of course)
on Win98. I could hardly believe it myself, but it's a fact.
Enough people to make it worth worrying about?
IMHO, yes. at least, up to now, we've done our best to make the
Subversion client do a reasonable job on those systems. APR's been a
great help here.
Besides, AIUI this is not even about Win9x; NT and Win2k are affected, too.
I don't think we should be releasing crippled software to work around
Microsoft bugs that have Microsoft supported fixes, people should
rather apply the fix.
As I said, I don't care if a particular feature of APR (in this case,
LDAP support) isn't available on older systems. But I find it
unacceptable that apps linked with APR won't even start on those
systems, even if they don't use the unsupported features.
If it's impractical, we can always release a "cut down" version of APR
for the benefit of older platforms, marking it clearly as a version
supporting the older platforms only.
That would push an IMHO unacceptable packaging burden on dependent
projects. There's a perfectly good alternative that's used elswhere in
APR, that is, dynamic binding to OS APIs.
If people feel this is too marginal an issue, then I'd like to see a
note on apr.apache.org about which versions of which OS APR actually
supports.
-- Brane
