Tux wrote: > Bram Moolenaar schrob am Mittwoch, 17. Februar 2016 um 20:55 Zeit: > > > Does this even still build? > > I could set up a VM to test if this is what its future depends on. Why > do we have a restriction to "Windows XP onwards" at all?
The reason to remove it is to make it easier to work on the code, less #ifdefs to worry about, no risk of breaking something that you can't build (without spending more time, which slows down development and discourages people to make changes). The reason to keep it is that there are still people who use this code and care about having it. I generally default to "keep it", so we only remove something if there is nobody who cares about the code. That we didn't have fixes for Win16 for five years is a good indication of that. Windows XP is still being used, even though most people have stopped supporting it (including Microsoft itself). So we'll keep it for a while. But there doesn't appear to be a reason to support older MS-Windows versions (I have an old game that requires Windows 95, but it's actually not so easy to run, even in a VM). Those older MS-Windows versions can use older Vim versions. -- The psychic said, "God bless you." I said, "I didn't sneeze." She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And, damn if she wasn't right. Two days later, I sneezed. --Ellen Degeneres /// 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/d/optout.
