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Windows XP Support Dropped Using Build 3177

#1

Hi.

Although build 3177 installs on Windows XP, upon launch a message along the lines of “not a valid Win32 application” appears.

So it appears that Windows XP is dropped now from this build onwards?

Thanks,

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#2

afaict 3177 hasn’t been released yet…

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#3

https://download.sublimetext.com/Sublime%20Text%20Build%203177%20x64%20Setup.exe
Found it working :laughing:

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#4

So nothing in the Changelog regarding support XP being dropped then…

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#5

Are you sure you get the 32bit version?

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#6

Yes.
64-Bit programs don’t install on 32-Bit systems.

By the way, here’s the error message in full:

Unable to execute file:
C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe
CreateProcess failed; code 193.
%1 is not a valid Win32 application.

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#7

It might also be that support for XP was accidental over the past few build, since XP has been EOL’ed quite a while ago now.

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#8

True, although system requirements don’t seem to indicate that:

Cross Platform

Sublime Text is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses.

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#9

You could interpret that to include Windows 3.1 too, and you’d be similarly disappointed.

I don’t mean to be unsympathetic, but Windows XP is an ancient OS. Microsoft dropped support years ago, including critical security updates. Are you really running XP? Is this some kind of special-purpose machine? Is it hooked up to the internet?

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#10

There’s tons of software being released that still supports Windows XP.
It’s probably better to wait until an official announcement is made.

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#11

There’s tons of software being released that still supports Windows XP.

Probably more by accident than anything else. When XP was released, Apple was still using IBM (not Intel) chips in their hardware and they in turn still supported Macintosh OS 9 (and probably 8). In fact, Apple was still releasing new updates for OS 9 at that point. Sublime doesn’t run on MS-DOS either.

Frankly, if you’re using XP, you really shouldn’t expect anything (including software, hardware, the operating system itself) to work well, if at all. And if you’re using XP connected to the internet, you should expect that your machine is spending most of its time mining cryptocurrency or DDoSing random targets, because I guarantee it’s infected.

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#12

3177 is not out. There was a candidate version that we uploaded for testing, which wasn’t linked anywhere. We’ve removed it from download.sublimetext.com for now.

Maintaining the build servers to produce the Sublime Text builds takes up a surprising amount of time, so with Sublime Merge, we moved to a cross-compilation based approach instead. The candidate build for 3177 is testing the same approach for Sublime Text, however the loss of XP compatibility is one of the fallouts from that.

It’s not set in stone yet, but it is just a question of when: the next major version of Sublime Text certainly won’t have XP support, the only thing not set yet is if we’ll be dropping it for 3.2 or not.

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#13

Are you actually running XP? If so, why?

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#14

[quote=“jps, post:12, topic:39620, full:true”]It’s not set in stone yet, but it is just a question of when: the next major version of Sublime Text certainly won’t have XP support, the only thing not set yet is if we’ll be dropping it for 3.2 or not.
[/quote]

Thanks for the response.

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#15

When XP was released, Apple was still using IBM (not Intel) chips in their hardware and they in turn still supported Macintosh OS 9 (and probably 8). In fact, Apple was still releasing new updates for OS 9 at that point.

I don’t care about updates from Microsoft.

Frankly, if you’re using XP, you really shouldn’t expect anything (including software, hardware, the operating system itself) to work well, if at all. And if you’re using XP connected to the internet , you should expect that your machine is spending most of its time mining cryptocurrency or DDoSing random targets, because I guarantee it’s infected.

What a bullshit, lol. Are you trolling?)

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