chicken-hackers
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix nonblocking socket behaviour on Window


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix nonblocking socket behaviour on Windows
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 16:11:06 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

Peter Bex scripsit:

> Question: should we rip out support for pre-NT versions of Windows
> altogether?  I'm in favor, that would allow us to simplify
> ##sys#shell-command a bit, too (because get_shlcmd is pretty
> complicated and checks with sysinfo() whether it's running on NT).

IMO we can do better than that.  The last release of the Win95 family,
WinME, was EOLed more than seven years ago.  Windows NT 4.0 was EOLed
almost nine years ago because of unfixable security flaws.  Windows 2000
was EOLed more than three years ago.  According to Net Applications
best guesses, pre-XP versions represent about one in a thousand desktops
out there.

We should simply drop support for everything except XP (34%), Vista
(4%), Win 7 (50%), and Win 8 (10%).  (Do we support Windows 8 yet?)
That is equivalent to saying the internal version number must be
greater than 5.0.

-- 
Do what you will,                       John Cowan
   this Life's a Fiction                address@hidden
And is made up of                       http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
   Contradiction.  --William Blake



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]