[Scummvm-devel] Dropping Windows 9x/ME support

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When are you planning to move to sdl 2.0?

Always yours, Strizhniou Fiodar
Всегда ваш, Стрижнёв Фёдор

Пользователь Travis Howell <kirben at optusnet.com.au> писал:

>On 6/03/2016 1:58 AM, Arnaud Boutonné wrote:
>> Instead of dropping support directly, would it be possible to split
>> it in two, one for pre-XP and one for XP and later? This way, we
>> could improve the post-XP as you described, and see how many
>> downloads we have for the pre-XP package.
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>Only for release builds, and only if no major code changes are required
>for continued Windows 9x/ME support. I would have to provide the
>additional build, as I doubt buildbot has the disk space for another
>large tool chain. Windows 9x/ME support currently requires a much older
>tool chain, since more libraries are dropping Windows 9x/ME support over
>time. Older versions of GCC, FLAC, and Inno Setup are currently required.
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>I don't think this will be viable in the long term though, since ScummVM
>will move to SDL2 in the future, which completely lacks any support for
>Windows 9x/ME.
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