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Re: [RFC] Dropping support for Windows '9X and NT 4.0 in Subversion 1.6?

From: Mikel King <mikel.king_at_techally.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:53:05 -0400

On Sep 17, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Bert Huijben (TCG) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just a quick question to you all. Do you use a current subversion
> release
> (1.4 or 1.5) on Windows '9X or NT 4.0?
>
> We are thinking about dropping support for these Windows versions
> starting
> with Subversion 1.6, by formalizing Windows 2000 or later as
> requirement for
> the Windows releases.
>
> (You can always use an older Subversion client to connect to a new
> server on
> these windows versions)
>
> Microsoft dropped the support for these windows versions a few years
> ago and
> the currently released binaries from Collabnet, SlikSVN and probably
> also
> Tigris are only targeted towards Windows 2000 and later.
>
> Removing the compatibility workarounds, would clean up the
> authentication
> code considerable and might even enhance the speed a little bit.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Bert

Personally, I'd drop Win2k and below.

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