Re: LYNX-DEV Compiling Win32 version

[Matt Ackeret]

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998 address@hidden wrote:
>I have a problem understanding why people hope that old versions of Borland
>compilers will remain valid.  Borland stopped selling those versions, and
>essentially no longer supports them.  I have a recent Borland C++ Builder
...
>Only problem is that it simply won't recognize or reuse earlier Borland
>makefiles.  As near as I can tell, the only reason for continuing to use
>an earlier Borland compiler is if it does 16-bit or win32s code, so that
>you can test recent releases of lynx for backward compatibility.

Maybe they don't have a *machine* that will run the newer Borland releases?

If the older one runs on 286s perhaps, and the new ones don't, they'll 
continue using the only option they've got (on that hardware).