[Bf-committers] Windows 2000 build please.

[Stephen Swaney]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 01:05:59AM +0200, Mathias Panzenböck wrote:

> On 07/17/2011 12:43 AM, Michael Fox wrote:
> >
> > You Couldn't be furthur from the truth, comparing win2k and XP is like
> > comparing apples and oranges, they are vastly different internally,
> > win2k is 16bit OS winXP in 32Bit, with different calls to different
> > systems, may seem the same on the surface but underneith where we work,
> > is 2 different worlds. Hence support for win2k was dropped
> >
> 
> Are you sure you don't confuse Win2k with Win9x/Me? After all Win2k is NT based and the direct 
> predecessor of XP. (2k = Win NT 5.0, XP = Win NT 5.1)

You might want to read what Mike Erwin said earlier in the thread:

  The current keyboard code (by jesterking I think) and upcoming 3D
  mouse support (by me) both rely on the Windows RawInput API, which
  only works on XP or newer. Far as I know, that is the only hard
  technical reason blocking a Win2000 build.

That sounds like a bit of a show stopper.

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Stephen Swaney			
sswaney at centurytel.net