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Mike ErwinJul 16, 2011 6:56 am 
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Stephen SwaneyJul 16, 2011 8:01 am 
Michael FoxJul 16, 2011 3:43 pm 
Mathias PanzenböckJul 16, 2011 4:05 pm 
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Michael JuddJul 16, 2011 5:34 pm 
Campbell BartonJul 17, 2011 1:51 am 
Subject:Re: [Bf-committers] Windows 2000 build please.
From:Stephen Swaney (sswa@centurytel.net)
Date:Jul 16, 2011 4:37:25 pm
List:org.blender.bf-committers

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 01:05:59AM +0200, Mathias Panzenböck wrote:

On 07/17/2011 12:43 AM, Michael Fox wrote:

You Couldn't be furthur from the truth, comparing win2k and XP is like comparing apples and oranges, they are vastly different internally, win2k is 16bit OS winXP in 32Bit, with different calls to different systems, may seem the same on the surface but underneith where we work, is 2 different worlds. Hence support for win2k was dropped

Are you sure you don't confuse Win2k with Win9x/Me? After all Win2k is NT based
and the direct predecessor of XP. (2k = Win NT 5.0, XP = Win NT 5.1)

You might want to read what Mike Erwin said earlier in the thread:

The current keyboard code (by jesterking I think) and upcoming 3D mouse support (by me) both rely on the Windows RawInput API, which only works on XP or newer. Far as I know, that is the only hard technical reason blocking a Win2000 build.

That sounds like a bit of a show stopper.