[ros-dev] Update reported version to Windows 2000 (Service Pack?)

[Michael Trausch]

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Royce Mitchell III wrote:
> 
> All these discussions are really rather moot. We will never *be* any
> particular version of Windows. We might as well report the latest,
> giving the user the option to change it for finicky programs.
> 
> As I mentioned previously, we ought to default to reporting a "future"
> version of Windows, just to keep nosy version-checking apps happy.
> 

But don't report more then what you're capable of dealing of dealing
with the function calls of, at the same time.  For example, ROS
doesn't support XP themes/skinning of the OS yet, so I wouldn't set
it to claim it... some applications act differently if you're on
Windows XP because of that.  I would default to Win2k if you've got
that implemented, and then in the future give the user a choice to
change the version for the system as a whole if they want, say if
they are running all really old apps or something.

Because it will never be an exact Windows, the settings *should* be
changeable anyway, and allow the users to change it, because that
would allow someone to continue to use "outdated/Not supported"
software on a new more secure environment.  I'd like if that type of
thing were right in the control panel, personally, but I couldn't
implement something like that if I tried.  I'm just not yet a
programmer.

	- Mike

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