Re: [Audacity-devel] ANSI builds

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

If it helps or not already known, this thread has some information:
http://www.msfn.org/board/Visual-Studio-2008-and-Windows-9x-t112283.html

and a possible solution (requires statically linked runtime libraries):
http://www.legacyextender.com/




Gale 


| From Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> 
| Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:20:32 +0100
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] ANSI builds
> | From James Crook <cr...@in...> 
> | Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:27:23 +0100
> | Subject: [Audacity-devel] ANSI builds
> > NB: With the move to MSVC 2008 Express, Win 98 builds are no longer 
> > supported.  I am fine with that, especially if no active developer is 
> > building/testing for Win98.  I am wondering though if that makes 
> > building ANSI builds pointless now?  I believe all supported platforms 
> > support Unicode.
> > 
> > There might possibly be an alternative case for building all-in-one 
> > builds (wxWidgets linked in).  These would be built without wxWidgets 
> > aware plug-ins and would not be able to use them - because wxWidgets 
> > needs to be a dll to access it from a plug in.
> > 
> > Mostly your call Gale - do we drop ANSI builds now?
> 
> Having invested quite a bit of time in keeping ANSI going, I would like 
> to see a 2.0 for 98/ME, but I've no great desire to support ANSI beyond
> that. There has to be a cut-off point where we drop support for OS'es 
> that are no longer supported by their manufacturer, but my rationale is
> that it's been so long since a new stable that it would be nice to finish
> our support for 98/ME with a non-Beta more fully featured version. 
> 
> I'm partly driven by a number of individual  users who are constantly
> pulling my ear not to drop Win98 support, no doubt conscious that we
> may do so. I've no time before release to install Windows 98 on my
> second machine, but do you expect any practical problems if you ran
> 1.3.8-rc2 on Windows 98, or does anyone already know that there are 
> problems? 
> 
> I would be fine with 98/ME not supporting wxWidgets plug-ins, but 
> how much work is the changes to accommodate that? 
>  
> >From memory, I think the proportion of Windows users still on 98/ME 
> is about 15%, so it is significant.  
> 
> 
> 
> Gale