On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Pierre Joye wrote:

>> Given the proably rather small amount of users who do build for Win2000
>> with VS2008 I figure this issue is not too sensitive.
>
> It is more about the amount of users who will run these binaries on Windows
> 2000. VS2008 does support 2000 (as well as the platform SDK 6.1).

Well that's more or less what I meant. We don't ship any binaries at all so
then someone else would build them and thus I speak of such "others" that use
VS2008 and run on Win2000.

>> Anyone with a strong opinion on either way and care to write up the patch?
>> (the previous one didn't feature a descriptive comment)
>
> For example, in PHP we support windows 2000 and later in 5.3 and will move
> the lowers version to something more recent in 6.0.

Sorry, but I don't understand your position on this matter based on that!

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  / daniel.haxx.se