mintty system integration before release

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Sat Jun 27 14:50:00 GMT 2015


Greetings, Thomas Wolff!

> Before a mintty release, I'd like to check Windows console issues with
> mintty in Windows 10,
> see https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/439
> As I don't have Windows 10, maybe someone can help out testing;
> there is some kind of resource magic which I'm not familiar with (and I 
> remember it's been discussed here in some context); there is a file 
> res.mft in mintty with these 2 lines:
>        <supportedOS Id="{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}"/> <!-- 
> Vista -->
>        <supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/> <!-- 7 -->
> and I have a vague idea that specific lines should be added to 
> facilitate seamless integration with Windows 8, 8.1, and 10.

Not integration, but rather, disable Microsoft idiocy.
Unless the application explicitly specify supportedOS, MS will automatically
enable compatibility mode based on oldest currently supported OS.

> Which lines could that be?

First result in google for "msdn supportedOS"…

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn481241.aspx


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, June 27, 2015 17:39:33

Sorry for my terrible english...


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