Re: What happened to WINNT?

Thamm, Russell wrote:
> Firstly excuse me if this topic is covered in the mailing list, but
> since the search engine appears to be totally broken (no matches for
> any search string including "NT", "WINNT", "subversion" or
> "tortoise"), its rather difficult to find it.

That's possibly because the user mailing list was only split away from
the dev mailing list this week. There appear to be only 52 mails on this
list.

> I recently upgraded to Subversion 1.2.3 and Tortoise 1.2.4.
> I was extremely dissapppointed that Tortoise 2.4 refuses to install
> on WINNT.

We dropped 95/98/ME/NT support with the 1.2.0 release. There are
significant API differences between NT4 and newer Windows versions, and
it was getting harder and harder to paper over the cracks. Also, none of
the developers uses NT, so debugging was almost impossible.

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/tsvn_1.2_releasenotes.html

> The old version (1.0.2) seems to checkout OK but I am a little wary
> about comitting changes with it.

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/compatibility.html
>
> What is the latest version of Tortoise that works with WINNT? Is this
> version compatible with Subversion 1.2.3?

V1.1.7 was the last release that supported NT. It's available from the
download page via the archive of older versions. Get it here:

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/files/documents/406/22868/TortoiseSVN-1.1.7-UNICODE_svn-1.1.4.msi

I will update the download page to make that a bit clearer.

> Do I have any option but to downgrade subversion to version 1.0 or
> 1.1?

You can use the latest version of SVN with older versions of TSVN (see
compatibility again).

Simon

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