I'm still here ... kind of

[Stewart Gordon]

John Reimer Wrote:

> On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:37:10 -0500, Stewart Gordon wrote:
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>> Not until I tried to run the installer did it come clean 
>> with: "Pan can not be installed on Windows 9x/ME"
>> 
>> Stewart.
> 
> Another thing...  which version are you downloading?  The 
> 0.14.2 stable or the 0.121 beta?  I'm using the beta one on 
> winxp.

0.121

> It seems the windows versions of the installer/binaries are 
> compiled by outside "unofficial" sources...  these fellas 
> might just have not bothered to indicate the system 
> dependencies on there packages.

In that case, it wouldn't be throwing anyone out, surely?

> One could also compile the 
> package themselves...but that's likely more work than it's 
> worth.
> 
> Pan, unfortunately, is not windows "oriented" software...  
> it's appears to be more there as a side effect of gtk+ 2 being 
> available on win32 (it certainly still looks good, however).  
> I use the beta one effectively on winxp and still prefer it to 
> all others because of it's size, speed, simplicity, and fairly 
> comprehensive functionality...  But, of course, it seems to 
> work much better on linux, where it's pratically native.  It's 
> your call whether or not you can put up with such software: 
> not everybody tolerates things being beta.

And even fewer people would tolerate things being nightly builds, which are what most versions of Mozilla/SeaMonkey I've used are.

Maybe going back to 'stable' releases would do something about _this_ problem....

Stewart.