[bt-devel] Windows installer tool choice (was: Re: Windows build system)

[Greg Hellings]

On a follow-up note:

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/2 Thomas Crawford <tjcford at gmail.com>:
>> Hey, guys, the last Windows software that I bought and that I can installed
>> on my lone windows box is Windows 9.x.  I did buy a laptop that had an OEM
>> XP on it, but that software can't be used anywhere but on my laptop.
>
> According to the latest statistics (February 2009) from
> www.statowl.com, of the PC users out there 0.1% are using Windows ME,
> 0.12% are using Windows 98.  Windows 95 doesn't even make the list,
> which cuts off at those using less than 0.1% of the market share.
> Even windows 2000 only gets 1.64% of the market share.  I have no
> plans to bother with supporting them in my own work of building and
> installing.  If you can get the source when it's packaged and build
> it, that's all fine and good but 0.22% of PC users doesn't really
> bother me.

TrollTech claims that they support 98/ME in Qt4, though no mention is
made of 95.  Perhaps my .msi files for our pre-beta releases are not
going to work for you, but hopefully we will move to something a bit
more robust and useful like NSIS for betas and releases which probably
has a means of dealing with installing on 98/ME as well.

Please, let us know when that time comes, because if Qt4 supports it,
it is likely that the application can, too.

--Greg

>
> On the other hand, if the next version I release (sorry, got caught up
> with school, etc -- I have a new version built, just need to package
> it with the .PNG files and upload it) still doesn't work properly on
> XP, then we'll have a problem.  Working on Vista is all fine and good,
> as it holds roughly 20% of the market share, but XP is still reported
> to have over 66% market share, so obviously good support there is
> imperative.  Look for an update shortly.
>
> --Greg
>
>>
>> It seems to me that there are a lot of folks that will be using Bibletime on
>> Windows 9.X.
>>
>> Tom Crawford
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Martin Gruner <mg.pub at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I suggest you to consider if BibleTime should support win9x and choose
>>> > the appropriate branch of NSIS.
>>>
>>> > 1) official branch - supports win9x, but there are some issues with
>>> > localizations (e.g. the text file with localization must use codepage
>>> > for that localization)
>>> > 2) unicode branch - supports only win2k and above, you can use even
>>> > non-ansi localizations
>>>
>>> These versions of Windows are not supported since a long time, so we
>>> should not need to support them either.
>>>
>>> mg
>>>
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