On 11.03.2010 17:03, Steve Borho wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Michael Jay Lippert > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I realize that there is no "support" or testing on Windows 2000, but I've >> been running the previous releases (up through 0.9.3) on my Windows 2000 box >> with great success. I also have TortoiseSVN and Subversion and Apache >> running there. >> >> Unfortunately the TortoiseHg 1.0 msi won't install. >> >> Is this because the tools the msi uses for installing don't run on Win2K or >> just a preemptive test because TortoiseHg is only advertised to run on >> Windows XP, Vista and 7? >> >> I've never seen the need to move my Win2K to a later version of Windows, it >> does everything I want it to. I really don't want to run Windows 7 for >> philosophical reasons (included DRM), although its interface may be better >> than Vista (which I really didn't like). >> >> So what I'm asking is could the msi be changed to allow installing on >> Windows 2000 after a warning, rather than just aborting? > > There's nothing to prevent someone from building an MSI that would > install on W2K, you simply have to remove the OS version check from > tortoisehg.wxs. But we will not / can not fix bugs for it.
I specifically won't test 1.0 or later on W2K. I have tested all other six platforms and regularly continue to do so, but I'm not interested in supporting W2K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
