On Mi, 2015-12-09 at 14:36 +0100, Bart wrote: > Dear Lazarus users, > > The Lazarus team has decided to finally phase out support for the > Windows 9x platform. > > Reasons for doing so are: > 1) The platform is not supported anymore by Microsoft. > 2) The platform is hardly in use anymore.
It is, regarding some industrial stuff. Those installations are made for long life, 20y+. > 3) The new 3.0 series compiler does not support this platform anymore. > 4) There is only 1 maintainer of the Windows 9x code base. > 5) Cleaning up the Win32 widgetset code will make it easier to > maintain and less prone to bugs. I understand the motivation. Go on. ;) > It may (or may not) be necessary to build your application using the > 2.6.4 compiler in order to get a functional Windows 9x application. [...] > We are aware of the fact that this decision may affect a niche group > of Lazarus users who develop for end-uses that still run Windows 98, > but these can still use the 1.6 branch of Lazarus. It would be helpful for those few user that - have running installation of Win9x with fpc/lazarus programs - have to be able to compile old programs to know an easy way of getting the correct compiler and maybe lazarus version. I suggest making at least a tagged version in svn and maybe a branch and executable that clearly states "last working version for Win9x" or similar. Thank for attention, Marc -- Marc Santhoff <[email protected]> -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
