I think that there are not that many win95 now, choose what it is easier for
you.. (my 2 p)
Alain
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:38:03AM +0200, Nielsen Linus wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm happy to announce that I have fixed the telnet
> problem for Win32. I had to rewrite the select() loop
> completely, using WaitForMultipleObjects() instead.
>
> A small drawback for this is that we must use winsock
> version 2 to make this work. This means that older
> Windows 95 systems will suffer, unless they upgrade
> winsock.
>
> I have two "solutions" to this:
>
> 1) Don't care. Let the Win95 users deal with it.
>
> 2) Make sure that the startup code in Curl (main.c)
> records which version of winsock it managed to open,
> and only fail if telnet is used.
>
> I prefer alternative 1, as it is much easier to do. But
> on the other hand, I don't like discriminating users of
> older systems.
>
> What do you other people think?
>
> Are there that many Win95 users with winsock 1.1 out there?
>
> /Linus
Received on 2001-07-04