Archive for April, 2008

Poll about the future of WinDirStat

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Oliver
on 2008-04-27
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Good news first. Development on WinDirStat has officially resumed.

Now the question. I know as a matter of fact that there is demand for a 64bit version of WinDirStat. However, since 64bit implies Unicode, there is no need to handle this specifically as long as the compatibility requirements ar Windows 2000 and above. Nevertheless, as you know we actually do have an ANSI version. My proposal would be the following:

  1. I’ll try to keep compatibility as much as possible, even for Windows 9x/ME.
  2. Emphasis will be put on Windows 2000 and above - meaning it will be native Unicode.
  3. The versions offered will stretch 32bit (x86) and 64bit (x64) with Unicode. ANSI may be made available separately.
  4. New features will only be available in the Unicode versions, but bugs will be fixed in the old one and selected features may be migrated back.

I’ll add a poll soon at this place (possibly as a new post, so people who subscribe to the RSS feed get to see it).

// Oliver

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