George Reilly wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Mike Williams > <[email protected]> wrote: > > If Bram wants to keep VIM as backwardly compatible on Windows as possible > > (i.e.back to NT4 and 2K) then we can't support cleartype out of the box - > > these will have to be custom builds for more recent versions of Windows. > > Let's not make life any harder for semi-modern versions of Windows at > the expense of versions that have been obsolete for a decade. XP > still has approximately one-third market share. Anything before that > is lost in the noise. Anyone obdurate enough to run NT4 or Win2K can > settle for Vim 7.3.800.
So long as we can give the user an error message. Not just crashing and giving the user the difficult task to find out why. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 63. You start using smileys in your snail mail. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
