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Re: setup ChangeLog IniDBBuilder.h IniDBBuilderPac ...
On Dec 17 10:52, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:12:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Dec 16 13:40, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:18:38PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >But we discussed this on the developers list. The old setup will be
> >> >setup-legacy.exe and setup.exe is only for 1.7 and later. I'm rather
> >> >puzzled that you want to change this again. I have matching local
> >> >changes to the web page waiting. Please don't change this again.
> >>
> >> Since I have to change source code to understand the "release-legacy"
> >> directory, I opted to just do it in the trunk rather than the ancient
> >> setup 1.5 branch. There will still be a setup-legacy binary.
> >
> >Ok. The problem is just this. If setup.exe still works for 9x users
> >and just access setup-legacy.ini, they will never see that they are
> >accessing an unsupported repository. That's why I now think that
> >setup.exe should give them a warning instead. They should explicitely
> >be forced to use setup-legacy.exe if they updated at all.
>
> "There will still be a setup-legacy binary" != "setup.exe will seem to
> work just fine for Windows 9x users".
You wrote that you would like setup to work on 9x again and that's what
I'm talking about. I didn't mean to imply anything about setup-legacy.
It's all about setup. Details might be helpful.
Corinna
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