Eduard Braun wrote
Current 0.92.x runs on Windows XP in principle, however please note
- The pre0 builds I linked (CI builds with stock packages from MSYS2) currently do *not* run on Windows XP. (due to a bug in mingw-w64 which caused the _time32 bug, but was fixed in the meantime. However upstream MSYS2 is unwilling to rebuild some packages [1] with the fixed mingw-w64 version - willingness to still support XP is fading)
- I have those packages rebuilt locally and I will build the final release with these packages, so it will run on Windows XP.
Thank you Eduard for the explanations. I had read pieces of them but didn't fully get the point. Now I see that I'm out of hope for being able to build Inkscape myself for Windows XP, at least not with the time and efforts I'm willing to spend on it. Can you please give me directions on where I'll be able to find the "fixed" release? Do you plan to make it available as a 0.92.3preX to test or should I wait the _final_and_official_ release only?
Eduard Braun wrote
Long term (i.e. beyond 0.92.3) it will be questionable if we can continue to support Windows XP (third party libraries are dropping support for XP quickly these days), but seeing as Microsoft ended support for Windows XP four years ago I think it's fair to point users who still require XP for whatever reason to the 0.92.3 release in that case.
IMHO this is absolutely reasonable. I'm just looking for a stable release to freeze into my XP system and never ever think about updating it. Now I have a devel- release that works pretty well for its purpose but sometimes has some quirks which I think have been addressed (I don't experience them with the more recent 64 bit version on Windows 7).
Thank you.
Luca
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