Re: [Gretl-devel] gnuplot does not work under xp
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> By itself, this implies that if we want to continue to support XP we'll
> have to produce a special build of wgnuplot.exe. However, at this point
> it's not clear to me how to produce such a special build using a modern
> compiler. I expect it's not impossible and I'll make some further attempts,
> but it may be that XP has come to the end of the road so far as gretl
> updates are concerned.
Oh well, I suppose XP users may want to try Linux then :)
Well, seriously, yes, I would hope so.
I can certainly see users wanting to stick with an OS that they've
found to be reasonably stable over the years, and not wanting to pay
the "Microsoft tax" for "upgrades" that might not actually be
improvements at all. But after 16 years, and with MS having ended
support years ago, I think it ought to be time to reconsider an
attachment to winXP in favour of a free OS.
Allin