Death to win9x?
Paul Vriens
paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com
Tue Nov 30 13:59:23 CST 2010
On 11/30/2010 08:53 PM, Eric Durbin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com
> <mailto:dank at kegel.com>> wrote:
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> I'm all for removing stuff that nobody needs anymore. I imagine there
> are still a few popular older apps that will force us to keep some old
> win9x behaviors around, though, so we probably won't be able
> to remove the 'emulate win98' choice from winecfg any time soon.
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> Windows 7 still offers a compatibility mode back to Windows 95 in a
> program/shortcut's properties. I don't think wine should remove this.
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I think the first (only?) thing we should discuss right now is whether
we should stop running our test-suite on Win9x/WinME.
The little bits and pieces we have in our code should stay as we
probably need that to cope with old apps that expect a different behavior.
--
Cheers,
Paul.
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