looks like end-of-life for W2K was over 3 years ago.
On the plus side, this might be the kick I need to finally upgrade my
desktop system from XP to Windows 7...using the version I purchased for
this purpose when it first came out. I can't believe they still require a
format install to do this upgrade :-(
Rick
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Mark Miesfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> I looked at the read me for ooRexx 4.1.3 and was somewhat surprised to see
> we still claim to support W2K in it.
>
> I haven't had a working W2K system for 8 years, so I don't think we, the
> project members, have tested an ooRexx release on W2K for many years.
>
> I'm not in favor of claiming to support a operating system version that we
> have no viable means to test, and have no intention of testing.
>
> For the next release, I intend to update the read me and remove the claim
> that we support W2K. Unless some one objects to that ...
>
> For Windows, I would like to say we will support an operating system up to
> Microsoft's end of life for that operating system. That we will not
> intentionally do anything to break support for versions that have past
> their end of life, but we no will no longer guarantee that ooRexx will work
> on that version.
>
> I personally am more interested in moving forward than living in the past.
>
> I think the Unix / Linux version claims are probably out of date also, but
> I don't have a good handle on that, so I'll leave updating that area to
> some one else if they are interested.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
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