Am 05.03.2018 um 15:21 schrieb Marc Jeanmougin:
Hi,
Le 05/03/2018 à 15:12, LucaDC a écrit :
Is the 0.92.x branch meant to still run under Windows XP or has some fundamental incompatibility that prevents it been introduced?
AFAIK, some fundamental incompatibility has been introduced, so XP is only supported up to 0.91.x
Stop spreading rumors ;-) That Information is true in respect to current master (0.93) which will never run on Windows XP due to GTK+3 not being compatible with Windows XP.
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.
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.
Best Regards Eduard