Win2k is not so common as you might think: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
that data indicates that it's being used by about 0.4% of all users worldwide. While this might not be the most accurate assessment of the actual installed base, I believe it's the best statistic we have. There are a number of issues with continuing to use gdi: 1) issues with compositing 2) not hardware accelerated 3) officially deprecated and will not see either bug fixes or new features 4) will likely disappear in a future release of windows. GC On Friday, June 11, 2010, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can I use the updated GDI API introduced with Windows 2000? I doubt anyone > is currently interested in deploying Windows applications on older Windows > versions, but let me know… I'm interested in using SetWorldTransform() and > similar to support stuff like rotation. > > Doug, if you are stuck because of the issues I introduced, feel free to roll > back my changes (r30523 and 30524)… > > > > Yes, Windows2000 is fine. I use it regularly with GNUstep. W2K is itself > quite old but still widespread. > What "older" could we support? Only WinNT4, because all the other windows > versions wouldn't be supported by recent mingw anymore, which now requires a > "Nt class" kernel. I don't have an NT4 machine available, I don't know if > anybody even tried GNUstep there the past *years*. > > If possible, however, I'd refrain from using XP only call and keep W2K > support. > > Riccardo > > _______________________________________________ > Gnustep-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev > -- Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
