Hi all, There are a few potential changes regarding the Win32 platform, some of which have been previously discussed, that I wanted to get some feedback on from the mailing list. These affect developers and users. Please let me know if you have any thoughts on the below:
1. Unless someone else wants to maintain the Visual Studio 2003 project files, I intend for FreeSCI 0.6.4 to be the last release with support for Windows 95. The Win32 port will continue to support Windows 98/2000/XP/2003/Vista. If no-one volunteers to maintain them, the Visual Studio 2003 project files will eventually be removed from the source tree, meaning that Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista will be required to build FreeSCI using the free (or otherwise) Visual C++ 2005/2008. 2. The DirectX 8 SDK is no longer available for download from Microsoft and is becoming increasingly hard to find. I would like to update this to the DirectX 9 SDK. The main reason is that there is a lot more documentation available for the newer version, making it easier to develop for. It will also remain current for some time and more smoothly integrates into recent versions of Visual C++. The downsides are that it will break Win32 build environments requiring developers to have the newer SDK installed to build successfully, and is not supported by Windows 95 (which shouldn't be an issue, see previous paragraph). 3. I've noticed on Vista that FreeSCI does not put its config folder into the location specified by Microsoft for applications (under AppData). This is very apparent and looks unusual from a user's perspective in Explorer. I would like to correct this for Vista at least, and preferably for all other Win32 environments to keep them consistent. This would require user education and if the folder is found in the incorrect location, that it be moved and the user notified. Thanks for your time! Alex. _______________________________________________ FreeSCI-develop mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freesci-develop
