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Date: 17 Feb 2025 18:38:58 GMT
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:34:14 +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:

> Hackers have demonstrated that many games and some browsers do not work
> on Windows XP simply because of an explicit version test in the code,
> removing which lets the program run.

When we started developing an Android app, Android 4.0 was the latest 
version. As time went on 4.0 lost market share and the app did a version 
test for a minimum version to support the newer features.

My personal tablet didn't receive updates past 4.1 and would not run the 
production app. However I could build my own apk with the version test 
removed and it would run -- mostly. 'Mostly' isn't good enough.

I hit the same sort of problem with Esri applications. It used some of the 
extended instructions that were not supported by earlier AMD Athlon 
processors and would ultimately crash on those machines. Esri did not test 
for the instructions so I created a small utility to do the test so our 
support people wouldn't install on those machines and then have to deal 
with support calls about crashing apps. Trust me, when you install third 
party software on a client's system it's your fault if it doesn't work.

Sure, hackers can figure out what does or doesn't work. Commercial 
software creators don't want to deal with 'maybe it will work most of the 
time'.