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[Adam C.]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:59:26 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>  
wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
>> On Monday 27 September 2010, Cyrille Berger wrote:
>>
>> > Actually, I would support Windows XP and 7, and just drop vista. The  
>> reason is
>> > that XP still have a huge market share. And it still have a few years  
>> in front
>> > of it. I would ignore Vista, however. But if XP is used as a base, it  
>> should
>> > not be too difficult to have it working on 7.
>>
>> When I was still developing Qt apps for Windows, there didn't seem much  
>> difference between Window 7 and Vista: both were tricky in ways that XP  
>> wasn't :-). We can probably see how Nitrostemp's windows installer  
>> works and do the same thing for Krita. It'll be a big download, but  
>> then, that's a mark of quality :-)
>>
>
> I just tested the Amarok Windows installer and it's a perfect  
> demonstration of how this is difficult to get right: there's a lot of  
> flicker and subinstallers running and then finally, after install 500mb  
> of stuff, Amarok crashes on startup.

500 MEGABYTES?
that's way to much imo. we have to try cutting this down..

>
> Boudewijn
>
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