Re: [Ethereal-dev] Support for old Windows versions (9x, NT4) is silently crumbling away by the libraries we use ...

[Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Roland wrote:
> Am 06.03.2006, 17:52 Uhr, schrieb Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>>
>>> So my questions is: Can we (and do we want to) support any older Windows
>>> versions if the libraries we use don't support it any longer?!?
>>
>>
>> I'll answer with another question: Can we support older versions?  That
>> is, do any of Ethereal's developers have machines running older versions
>> of Windows, and do they have the time to support them?
>>
>> (I don't -- the only machines I have available to test with run 2000,
>> XP, and 2003.)
> 
> 
> I have a Win98SE installation in a virtual machine. But I have no
> Win95,  WinME or NT4 available.

I have a real NT4, but no suitable compilers. (I have VC7 running on XP
but I have had issues with running binaries on NT.)
And it has Token Ring, not ethernet.
I could throw together a VMWare NT4.

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