i agree about xp unssupported etc❤x1 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 1:46 pm But Windows 7 support ended January 14, 2020. Even Win 8.1 isn't supported since last January.
Many features regularly requested are incompatible with such old software. The most obvious example is a new WebView : Chromium dropped its support for those OSes, which are respectively 14 and 11 years old.
I find this argument very weird, so let me sum it up : very old, unsafe, buggy and features limited versions of Windows are enough for some specific usages, so those machines aren't updated. BUT, we need to keep new versions of PureBasic compatible with those old machines because they need new features and bug fixes? What am I missing here?
And even if I'm missing some key argument there, I don't see how it changes anything. Let's imagine that there are millions of XP machines not connected to the internet, enough to amount to 2% of all the computer in use today... Would that be a reason to limit the 98% left?
If a future PB version dropped the support for legacy OS, older versions would still exist, and they would continue to work as is; exactly like an old and unsupported OS.
ONLY dissagreement i have is that i believe that it should mentiom when official stopped supported XP , 7 etc so will know
for example is PB5,6 last veriosn fully suport XP? is 5,4 ? 5.0 ??
equally is PB6 last OFFICIAL and FULLY supported win7 ?
that way if someone for ANY reason need "win xp" development will use up to the last version