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[Alexander Belchenko <bialix@xxxxxxx>]

Sidnei da Silva пишет:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Ian
> Clatworthy<ian.clatworthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi and welcome to the Bazaar Windows mailing list!
>>
>> To get the ball rolling, I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on how
>> Bazaar ought to be packaged on Windows. I think we should start by
>> thinking about an ideal outcome. We can worry about reality - installer
>> size, toolset + compilers, time remaining until 2.0 ships - after we
>> have some agreement about what we're aiming for.
>>
>> Here are some "degrees of freedom" to consider:
>>
>> * OS version: XP vs Vista vs 7 vs 2003, etc.
>> * 32 vs 64 bit
> 
> I assume this is about which versions to support installation on. If
> that's the case, here's my opinion:
> 
> - We should support installation in all releases from XP to 7, but not
> on anything older than that, like 2000 or 95.
> - We should probably start making NTFS a requirement, since there are
> filesystem operations that only work on NTFS and not on FAT32 and
> older which we could benefit from. In a couple years we could drop
> support for XP and 2003 and start benefiting from the transactional
> filesystem support that exists in Vista and newer to make certain
> operations cheaper (this is already exposed in pywin32, AFAICT).

Are you serious? Really?
This sounds like a very BAD joke for me.