Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections

Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-23T18:42:22Z

> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:02:39 +0000
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ktietz@redhat.com, brobecker@adacore.com,
> fercerpav@gmail.com
>
> >> What older MS-Windows release
> >> should be supported? I guess MS-Windows 2000? Do you mean it seriously?
> >
> > It's up to us to decide. Emacs, for example, still supports Windows
> > 98, per an explicit request from RMS, based on the large number of
> > users of those systems in the 3rd World.
>
> Hmm, I couldn't find any statistic/report online that confirms this.
> All I found puts worldwide Windows 9x usage <= 0.01%.

Yes, and now multiply that by the size of the population in, say,
India, and see what you get.

> I don't think we should keep trying to remain compatible with
> such old versions.

As I said, it's up to us.

> I'd actually be very surprised if indeed we still are, given
> nobody's been really testing it.

It could very well be broken on these platforms, yes.

> I think that people that still need to _develop_ for Windows 9x can
> simply use an older GDB.

What about developing on latest versions of Windows, but debugging on
Windows 9X? There could be 9X-specific problems that might require
that. (I had such an experience with Emacs about 3 years ago, and the
person who helped me debug the problem was using GDB 7.2 on a Windows
98 box.)