A Breezy status update

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Fri Jun 16 06:17:48 UTC 2017


> From: "Martin (gzlist)" <gzlist at googlemail.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:18:26 +0100
> 
> On 15/06/2017, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > So you actually removed support for Windows 9X, not for W2K and XP, is
> > that right?
> 
> Yes, but we've also updated dependencies and made a whole bunch of
> other changes.

I don't think I understand what this entails.  Can you give more
details about that?

> > I'm not sure I understand what that means in practice.
> 
> What it means in practice is unless someone steps up to make releases
> and do testing, users will have to build and install for themselves,
> and report bugs when things break. As Mark points out, this is free
> software, anyone can do that.

This is fair, and no one can expect more.

> > Will there not be 32-bit builds as well?  If so, you lose XP just
> > because of that.
> 
> There was a 64-bit XP once - but yes, this and the other reasons
> mentioned is why I'm saying promising more is unrealistic.

Does that mean there will be no more 32-bit builds?  Because AFAIK
there are 32-bit versions of Windows 7, at least.  Are you going to
stop supporting them as well?



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