Bug 2131 - 16-bit support?

[Dustin Navea]

Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Do we want to throw out the baby with the bath water?
> In this case it's an obvious conflict between 16bit and 32bit, and note that
> it's even with a very rarely used DLL, thus it's easy to give up on it.
> 
> In all other cases in which 16bit and 32bit can happily co-exist I don't see
> much reason why we should discard 16bit support.

hmm.  I see your point, but at the same time, if we are trying to mimic 
windows, while still keeping the 16-bit code in there, shouldnt we just 
not work on it as much (like we are doing currently)?

Basically, the way I see it, vendors are stressing themselves with 
making 64-bit versions of their programs, as well as keeping their 
32-bit versions going, so they are probably going to scrap 16-bit 
support in the near future, if they haven't already.  Why should we 
continue developing something that is being phased out by the guys that 
create the need for this project in the first place?

Dustin