grepWin Portable 1.6.5 has been released. grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use regular expressions to do its job. This release drops Windows XP support, which has been end-of-lifed by Microsoft. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.
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Features
From the publisher: "grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use regular expressions to do its job. This allows to do much more powerful searches and replaces. In case you're not familiar with regular expressions, we have a very short regular expression tutorial for you. For example, you can (and maybe you should) limit the search to certain file sizes, file types, etc. Since regular expressions can sometimes get complicated, grepWin allows you to add your most used expressions to a presets list.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
grepWin Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.
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grepWin Portable is available for immediate download from the grepWin Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Comments
Please remove Windows XP
Your download page for this program mentions Windows XP in the system requirements.
Alas, this program recently (starting in v1.6.4) dropped support for it.
Please fix the download page accordingly.
Confirmed, Updated
I've confirmed that, as with FileZilla and others, grepWin has dropped support for Windows XP. It's been noted on the app homepage and in the release announcement. In the next release of grepWin Portable the launcher will throw an appropriate error.
Thanks but please rephrase
You've updated the news' announcement to state 1.6.5 dropped XP support. But like I wrote earlier, it's 1.6.4 that dropped it.
We Didn't Package It
We didn't package 1.6.4. I linked to our last package that supported it as a courtesy. I should probably just remove it as it isn't something we normally do and it's just one more thing for me to maintain.
list of apps no longer supported for XP
Could there be a page listing apps no longer supported by XP? Some [ besides me
] could have downloaded apps intended for future install before the app homepages were updated.
Wouldn't Help
You'd still have downloaded it before we updated the app homepage and the Windows XP abandon page. We may be adding a page for last known working on Windows XP. But that will only really help if you fire up an app and it doesn't work then you can go grab the older one that does.
At this point, you have to assume that any app you have will abandon you at any given release. FileZilla switched their compiler so 3.9.0.1 worked and 3.9.0.2 doesn't, for instance. The only apps that are sure to support XP at this point are Chrome (Google will support XP for another 9 months, possibly more) and Firefox (Mozilla said they will support XP for the forseeable future).
One and a half months later John changed his mind
https://portableapps.com/node/42651
Known To Happen
It's been known to happen
Especially when we can come up with a solution to help users that won't require major efforts on our part.
The system I propose in thread of allowing users to download the older version (and automatically copy settings in) should work pretty well. We'll continue to get apps working on XP where possible as well (adding C++ runtimes to Blender for instance).