Re: VCL (Win32) in Longhorn ?

> So would everyone who wants this be OK with dropping 9x support (and
> do note that this includes ME)? I would, because my company has never
> supported ME and will EOL 98 before such a Delphi could be released.
> But I really think that it's not really helpful to say that you want
> Unicode without saying whether or not you're OK with dropping 9x
> support in the VCL.
>

Absolutely. 9x and ME are *history* as far as we're concerned.

However, as Troy Wolbrink (TNT controls) has proven, you don't need to drop
9x support to add unicode - you just need to accept that your controls
revert to non-unicode on Win9x.

- Roddy


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