Euphoria
Ticket #918:
Inno setup files will not compile with new versions of Inno setup
-
Reported by
SDPringle
Jan 26, 2015
We are required to set the Minimum setup to 5. Discuss on the mailing list.
Details
1. Comment by jimcbrown
Jan 26, 2015
Why not discuss the issue here?
I guess we have no choice. It's unrealistic to expect us to maintain support for 9x when the installer program we have used has dropped it. We'd have to use dual installer programs or something, or come up with a non-installer zip to continue 9x support ... probably not worth the effort.
Maybe 4.0.6 should have 9x support, but it'd be the last one to do so, and we can officially drop it in 4.1.0
2. Comment by SDPringle
Jan 26, 2015
Can we officially drop it in 4.0.6?
3. Comment by jimcbrown
Jan 26, 2015
Dunno. We weren't suppose to even have a 4.0.6 release, it was suppose to be 4.0.5 and 4.1.0 at the same time....
If 4.0.6 is the very last one of the 4.0 line... not sure it's a good idea to drop a platform at the end of it.
4. Comment by SDPringle
Feb 08, 2015
Lets release a zip file with the 3.1 installer. :)
5. Comment by SDPringle
Oct 20, 2015
Changing the assignment status of this ticket because I do not have the hardware capable for testing this ticket.
Euphoria release 4.0.0, wouldn't work with 9x because it was compiled in such a way that all pointers from malloc needed to return pointers that were aligned on a 8-byte pointer value. On Windows 9x, it would simply crash with an assertion error.
In order to be portable you needed to apply a very specific set of flags and this was not done for the release. So, there is no loss in portability in going with the new Inno setup because 4.0.0 was not portable to Windows 9x systems anyhow.
6. Comment by ne1uno
Oct 20, 2015
in 2011 I ziped up the last known to work on win9x version of eu4 (unofficial) https://code.google.com/p/eu4qt/downloads/list
google has shut down code.google. so eventually that link could stop working. I'll copy some of the files to sourceforge eventually http://sourceforge.net/projects/eu4qt/
current versions eu4 may still build on win9x with the right make switches, but, a few socket routines will fail and some other minor problems.
won't be long before Xp builds will start to fail to be supported in installers. already seeing problems in Xp-Sp2 where programs need at least Sp3 or hard BSOD crash. fewer and fewer tests run on Xp so things can break before anyone realizes.
- euproria still ok though I haven't run any installers.
7. Comment by andi49
Oct 22, 2015
Sorry for interrupting. But who cares about Win95? Sorry, i do not understand. I checked my cd-board and i found a cd from 1995 SUSE Slackware with Kernel 1.2.13 (and developer kernel 1.3.25). Do you also want to support this one? Yes, i know the win32 Api is more stable than every thing the *ix frontier have to offer. But supporting a 20 years old OS make not really any sense. Just my point of view
8. Comment by jimcbrown
Oct 22, 2015
Maybe we should just drop 4.0.6 altogether. 4.0.5 is the least release of the 4.0.x line, and the last to support 9x.
Then 4.1.0 will be released only supporting XP and up.
9. Comment by jimcbrown
Oct 22, 2015
I really don't like the idea of dropping support for a platform in what's only a patchlevel change (4.0.5 to 4.0.6) - it feels like too big of a backwards incompatibility.
But, the more I think about it, the more dropping 4.0.6 altogether makes sense. Virtually everybody still using OE is using some version of 4.1 now. Most devs are probably set up with gcc only, and can't do a 4.0 release anyways. It's just been too long since 4.0.5 was released and 4.1.0 will be just plain too different, having added support for ARM and dropping support for OpenWatcom.
10. Comment by SDPringle
Oct 22, 2015
This problem doesn't change what 4.0.6 would run on. Run a copy of 4.0.5 against the tests in the tip of the 4.0 branch. Looks bad. Two years with out a release. We will keep getting bug reports for bugs that have been fixed because they are present in the latest release 4.0.5.
11. Comment by jimcbrown
Oct 23, 2015
So you are in favor of releasing 4.0.6 for 9x then?
12. Comment by jimcbrown
Oct 23, 2015
It's been a while, so I've forgotten...
Why can't we use the same version of Inno Setup that was used on 4.0.0 to ship 4.0.6 ?
Anyways, the bug reports should stop once 4.1.0 ships. I dont think a 4.0.6 release is needed just for that.
13. Comment by SDPringle
Oct 23, 2015
You can use the old version of Innosetup. Hold on to your old binaries and back them up!
14. Comment by jimcbrown
Oct 23, 2015
Closing this out as Won't Fix.
If we do release 4.0.6 then someone will have to use an older version of Inno Setup to do the official release. Simple as that. Regardless, 4.0.x will be the last line to support 9x.
For 4.1.0 we'll bump it up to 5, and drop 9x support.
GitHub