[mapguide-users] Upcoming MapGuide release schedule

[Zac Spitzer]

Of course, if you are using MapGuide opensource in a commercial environment
and you would like to sponsor the project to maintain support an older
operating system.....


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Martin Morrison
<martin.morrison at edsi.com>wrote:

> I concur.  If you really want to run the latest version of software,
> shouldn't that apply to the OS as well?
>
> Martin Morrison
> Application Engineer
> Engineering Design Systems, Inc.
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jackie Ng
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 8:41 AM
> To: mapguide-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] Upcoming MapGuide release schedule
>
> 2.6 won't have any alternate installation method for XP/2003. Not even the
> MgInstantSetup bundle will work.
>
> The reason is because the codebase has moved to VS2012 as the defacto
> windows compiler. VS2012 compiled code will not run on XP/2003 unless we
> compile the code with the Windows XP targeting pack.
>
> I *really* don't want to waste build resources to build/verify 2.6 to
> support a version of Windows that will be end-of-life several months after
> the scheduled release of 2.6.
>
> - Jackie
>
>
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