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as someone who doesn't write software it's the only one I've got.
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I'm not trying to appear ungrateful, or demanding (hence all the smileys), and it's your time to spend as you so choose, and mkvtoolnix is very, very, very much appreciated as I use it pretty much daily (one of the reasons no support for XP is disappointing for me as even when I build a new Win7 PC in the near future the old PCs will still continue to run XP), but I'm just offering a "user" perspective.
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Now I'm aware of that I'll assume any new version of mkvtoolnix will fail to work without warning unless I'm running the latest version of Windows and upgrade it far more cautiously in the future. I just see it as a bit of a pity no software writers seem to take a stand a say "well that new version of Windows is a piece of %^#$ and I won't support it", instead helping to force people to upgrade their non piece of %^$% Windows version instead, but as I said, what do I know? I don't write software. (I've run XP without a software firewall, without an antivirus program, without an anti-anything program for years without getting infected, just me, Firefox, XP and a router, so I honestly don't get the "insecure" argument either, but that's a whole other debate. I think that should carry more weight than Microsoft's fiscal policy, but I don't write software.
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Honestly, I get some of the reasons for not supporting XP, but when it comes to Microsoft not supporting it I have no idea what one has to do with the other, given more people still use XP than Vista and Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 combined (according to Wikipedia and the breakdown of computers connected to the internet, although I suspect there's an even larger number of PCs still running XP that aren't used for browsing). That'd at least allow XP users to run one version of the new GUI for the rest of eternity. There's the "new GUI is just around the corner" reason for continuing XP support until the first stable version is released.
Windows XP isn't supported by Microsoft anymore either, so why should I? Over a year ago I've said a couple of times that I would not spend time on Windows XP support anymore. In this case no such decision was made hence no ChangeLog entry. requiring function XYZ that's only available in OS version 29 and later. I usually don't mention dropping support for certain operating system versions in the ChangeLog unless there's a conscious decision involved like e.g. Maybe even impossible for me if it's due to Qt. mkvmerge suddenly doesn't run there anymore? Far from trivial. To some it may seem small, but finding the reason why e.g. There's a cost to such backwards compatibility. Not supporting Windows XP simply means that I will not hunt down the reason for this.
They simply turned out not to anymore, as it seems. I haven't done anything actively in order to prevent things from running on Windows XP. Windows XP isn't supported by Microsoft anymore either, so why should I? It's insecure, it will stay that way, and I have to set limits to what I can and do support. It seems the maintainer of MeGUI might be unaware of the lack of XP support as MeGUI updated MKVMerge to 7.8.0 when it was released, but fortunately that version does work on XP so no harm there so far.
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Should I be preventing MeGUI from updating it to version 7.9.0 so I won't find MeGUI suddenly incapable of MKV muxing?Įdit: I tested the last part and no, MeGUI can't mux MKVs if I update MKVMerge to 7.9.0. What about mkvmerge.exe? Programs such as MeGUI use it for muxing. It would have been nice to have the first "non-beta" version working on XP before XP support was dropped. The timing seems a shame, considering the final version of the new GUI isn't far away. Was it decided to deliberately prevent MKVMergeGUI from running on it? Mmg.exe from (portable) versions 7.8.0, 7.7.0 and 7.6.0 all run happily on XP. Is that mentioned in the changelog somewhere? I can't find it. That's odd, as I've been using MKVMergeGUI on XP. Windows versions prior to Windows Vista are not supported anymore (and haven't been for a couple of releases now).
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