Support for Win95 (was: Fedora Core 3 is no more, Weeee!)
Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
The Windows case is not that perfect. Inkscape had to drop support for Windows 95/98/ME because one of the dependencies (gtk+) was not working anymore on those operating systems (and nobody bothered enough to fix the regression at the gtk level).
Isn't the Gtk requirement of 0.44 the same as for 0.43? I thought it was a concious decision to drop Win95 in favour of stability and bug fixes only available in later versions of Gtk..
You should be able to use both Gtk 2.4 and 2.6 (matching the requirements for Inkscape 0.44 and 0.45?) on Windows 95/98/ME, but the current Windows installer comes with Gtk 2.8(?). Has anyone tried to build a Win95 version of Inkscape by linking against a lesser version of Gtk?
Ulf Erikson wrote:
Isn't the Gtk requirement of 0.44 the same as for 0.43? I thought it was a concious decision to drop Win95 in favour of stability and bug fixes only available in later versions of Gtk..
The requirements for 0.44 and 0.43 may be the same, but Win 9x was dropped back in 0.43: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes043#Windows_95.2F98.2FME...
You should be able to use both Gtk 2.4 and 2.6 (matching the requirements for Inkscape 0.44 and 0.45?) on Windows 95/98/ME, but the current Windows installer comes with Gtk 2.8(?). Has anyone tried to build a Win95 version of Inkscape by linking against a lesser version of Gtk?
Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
Ulf Erikson wrote:
Isn't the Gtk requirement of 0.44 the same as for 0.43? I thought it was a concious decision to drop Win95 in favour of stability and bug fixes only available in later versions of Gtk..
The requirements for 0.44 and 0.43 may be the same, but Win 9x was dropped back in 0.43:
I see.. So.. is it different from the requirements of 0.42 (or whatever version did run win95)? ;-)
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes043#Windows_95.2F98.2FME...
Quoting: "Due to issues in GTK 2.8 beyond our control this version of Inkscape will not work on Windows 95/98/ME."
I still find it odd to blame gtk 2.8 when inkscape only requires 2.4(?). From the earlier discussions about running inkscape on older linux distros it was decided to only slowly raise the gtk requirements. Why so quickly on windows?
Anyway, if there will be no more win95 versions of inkscape I will be happy to stop duplicating my code (for both ansi and wide windows api).
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