Re: [TSVN] nightly builds should switch...

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:10:02 +0000, Will Dean <svn@indcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> At 10:49 14/01/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >btw: this will probably also be the last release in the 1.1.x line.
> >The next release will most likely be linked to Subversion 1.2.0. Oh,
> >and when that happens, I was thinking of dropping ancient history
> >(i.e. NT4, Win98/Me) support completely and only providing the UNICODE
> >msi.
> >Comments?
>
> Obviously this would allow a clean-up in some of the source, and make the
> devs' life a bit easier, but is the MBCS version a big burden, or was there
> something else you were thinking of?

The reason for getting rid of those versions isn't the MBCS part. It's
the Win98/Me/NT4 part which makes TSVN sometimes (often?) crash on
those systems. And since I only get bug reports/crashreports from
those systems but nobody here actually can build/debug TSVN on those
systems (my hardware is too new, so I can't even _install_ win98
anymore because the lack of drivers) those bugs can't get fixed
correctly. All I can do is guess and provide a 'fix' based upon
guessing. That's not very good, and let's face it: TSVN never really
was stable on those systems.

> We still have to be able to do all the To/From MBCS stuff, because the SVN
> libraries are MBCS.

That's not a problem.

> Do we have any idea (download stats, etc) how many people are using the 9x
> version?

Sure:
http://stats.tigris.org/tortoisesvn/

(for january 2005:
UNICODE 1.1.2 : 19671 downloads
MBCS 1.1.2 : 613 downloads
)

Stefan

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