Re: Stand Alone EXE

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From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 03/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:32:08 -0000

Jim Hubbard <reply@groups.please> wrote:
> > Note the lack of a mention of Windows 95. As I said, Thinstall itself
> > may work on 95, but that doesn't mean that programs which themselves
> > don't run on Windows 95 are going to run on 95 under Thinstall.
>
> You are right. I didn't fully answer your question before - my bad.
>
> Any application that you wrap with Thinstall must be able to run without
> Thinstall on the destination OS. Remember that Thinstall is a new
> deployment tool not an OS replacement.

Absolutely. So where exactly does the following paragraph written by
you come into the equation?

<quote>
Financial constraints are eliminated (from the software's end-user
standpoint) because they don't need to upgrade their OS to use your
Thinstall applications.
</quote>

Either the application would already run on the end user's OS, in which
case there's no financial constraint, or it won't run under Thinstall
without upgrading their OS anyway, in which case the financial
constraint isn't eliminated after all.
 
> The same goes for the DLLs that you wrap with your application. If your
> application calls API functions that are only available on XP, the
> application will fail to run on Win98 and Win2000 - with or without
> Thinstall.
>
> Sorry for the confusion about the Win95 + .Net issue.
>
> Do you still have many Win95 customers?

No - but then I wasn't the one posting an article about how loads of
companies still use Windows 95. Was there a point to posting that
article? 

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