Dmitry Yemanov wrote:

> Lester Caine wrote:
>> I know that running the server on Win98 will be phased out and I have no
>> problem with that, since the notes I'm seeing for FB3 say that the client will
>> still be able to connect FROM a Win98 machine. But what is the current time
>> line on things here. In particular, for those large display systems that I
>> still have running multiple graphics cards on Win98SE will I be able to drop
>> an FB2.5 or FB3 client on at some time and still get the same simple query
>> results I currently look up?
>
> Theoretically, v2.5 client *should* work on older Windows, but I don't
> think anybody is going to test and ensure that being true. As for v3.0,
> it might depend on whether the team will switch from MSVC2005 to
> MSVC2008 for that release. AFAIK, the MSVC2008 runtime doesn't support
> even NT4, not mentioning Win98...

I think what I am probably asking here is what is there specifically that
would stop a CLIENT compiled with MSVC2005 from working with a server running
on a different machine compiled with MSVC2008? I see no difference between a
windows client talking to a Linux server? So could we have a suitable CLIENT
for NT4 and W98 ?

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