[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Gerald Combs wrote:
>> I've checked in a change to do this.
>>   
> Well, the basic question remain.
> 
> Support for Win 9x based systems are just crumbling away anywhere.
> 
> GTK 2.8 doesn't work with it at all (PANGO requires NT+ as I understand
> it), WinPcap doesn't provide support for 9x systems any more (it may or
> may not work).

Microsoft isn't promising much support for ME after July 11:

    http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=6519

Windows 95 and 98 support has long since been retired.

> So I don't know to handle this.
> 
> An idea might be: We might want to keep the 9x compatibility as much as
> *we* can until the 1.0 release (and fix bugs as they are reported and if
> we *can* fix them) and drop any support for 9x beyond the 1.0 release.
> 
> However, we can't really promise to support 9x at all, as the number of
> developers working on 9x systems seems to be around zero today ...

You can probably add NT 4.0 to the list.

> So what *we* could offer is to fix bugs that we *can* fix, but were "off
> hands" for bugs in the various libraries we use ...

Sounds reasonable.