On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:53, Mikel King <mikel.king_at_techally.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
Win2K is still under Microsoft's "Extended Support" until 7/13/2010.
NT4 SP6a ended 12/31/2004.
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Received on 2008-09-18 16:59:01 CEST