Re: Windows 9X without KernelEx

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I do have such lists, but no one said they are accurate, and I don't
> have a system to try that.
>
> If you are saying that Emacs doesn't work on Windows 98, then we need
> to handle this one issue at a time.
>
> First, does Emacs refuse to start on Windows 98, because some function
> we call directly is unavailable there, even when UNICOWS.DLL is
> installed?  If Emacs refuses to start due to some functions called
> directly, please submit a bug with the names of those functions, and
> this is something we _must_ solve (but can do that after the release
> branch is created).
>
> If Emacs does start, it means Windows 98 provides at least stubs for
> those functions.  Then we need to consider each of the functions you
> mentioned in the patch separately.  Some of them I'd simply ignore:
> for example, it makes no sense to me to fix the Uniscribe support if
> its broken, since we prefer HarfBuzz anyway.  Similarly for w32notify:
> all we need is to make file-notifications unavailable on Windows 98.
>
> Therefore, please submit a separate bug for each of the functions you
> think are missing or don't work, and let's consider them each as a
> separate issue.  Part of the consideration is the potential breakage
> in the Windows port that could be caused on modern Windows systems --
> if the risk is too high, I'd prefer to delay the solution to Emacs 31.
> It would be good if each such bug report included results of actual
> attempt to use those functions on Windows 98, if you can do that,
> because then we'd have detailed information about the possible
> breakage, and will be able to weigh our options based on solid facts.

As it's the weekends, I suppose I might install Windows 98 in a virtual
machine.  Fingers crossed.