Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] gimp-web: Update the Windows download link to gimp-2.8.0 [try 2]

[Jeremy Morton <admin game-point net>]

Microsoft's Genuine Advantage was installed with SP3, but not SP2. 
There are millions of SP2 installs out there in the wild.  If GIMP 
should basically run on SP2, I don't see a reason not to offer an 
(unsupported) installer for it; it's just a case of, as Jernej wrote, 
'bumping the minimum requirement' down again.

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Best regards,
Jeremy Morton (Jez)

On 07/05/2012 08:07, Cristian Secară wrote:
> În data de Mon, 07 May 2012 00:02:43 +0100, Jeremy Morton a scris:
>
> > Please please please offer support for SP2.  It's not hard and
> > there's still a ton of SP2 installations out there.  If you don't
> > bother with SP2, you might as well not bother with XP at all.
>
> What means "offer suport" here ? Is to be expected that GIMP 2.8 will
> not work at all on SP2, or is it just about offering help by someone in
> case of install troubles or something ?
>
> (Other than that, I believe that the "SP3" is just a centralized
> collection of XP fixes, most of them being already present in a SP2
> with all live updates accepted and installed. As for "monitoring&
> reporting" folly, in case this exists, was this present only on XP SP3
> and never since then on newer Windows versions ?
>
> Cristi