幾週前我主持了一場 Paratext 初學者工作坊。有些參與者當時尚未加入正式的翻譯專案，所以大家帶來了各種不同年份的電腦……也就是他們能弄到的任何機器。Paratext 下載頁面指出，Paratext 9.1 需要 Windows 8 或更高版本，以及 64 位元作業系統。有好幾台電腦我們無法安裝 Paratext 9.1，其中一台確實是 Windows 7，但我認為其他安裝失敗的機器都是舊版本的 Windows 10（例如 2015 年或 2016 年的版本）。我原本以為它們一定是 32 位元的機器，但我特別檢查了其中一台，結果顯示它是 64 位元的機器。（我不記得具體細節了，但所有安裝都以相同的方式失敗，所以這不只是一般的隨機安裝錯誤，而是因為作業系統類型不符合安裝要求而失敗。）
不幸的是，我現在無法再存取那些電腦了。我記下了幾台機器上 Windows 10 版本的筆記，但我現在甚至不確定該如何解讀我的潦草筆記：一台寫著「1511 10.0 10240 @2015」，另一台寫著「10.586.0 @2016」。
所以問題是，是否有 Windows 10 的最低版本要求？還是需要某個 .NET 函式庫或其他元件，而舊版本的 Windows 10 沒有提供？
幸運的是，我相信我們能夠在所有那些機器上安裝 Paratext 9.0，但這也給這些初學者造成了一些困惑，因為他們螢幕上的內容與講者螢幕上的內容不一致。
I led a Paratext beginners workshop a couple of weeks ago. Some of the participants weren’t in official translation projects yet, so people brought all sorts of different ages of computers… whatever they could get their hands on. On the Paratext download page it says that Paratext 9.1 requires Windows 8 or greater, and a 64-bit OS. There were several computers where we couldn’t install Paratext 9.1, and one of them was in fact Windows 7, but I think all of the others where the install failed were old versions of Windows 10 (like from 2015 or 2016). I assumed that they must be 32-bit machines, but one of them I specifically checked and it said that it was a 64-bit machine. (I don’t remember the details, but the installs all failed in the same way, so it wasn’t just some random installation failure, but a failure to have the right kind of OS for installation.)
Unfortunately, I don’t have access to the computers anymore. I jotted down a couple of notes of Windows 10 versions from a couple of the machines, but I’m not even sure how to decipher my scribbles now: for one “1511 10.0 10240 @2015” and for the other “10.586.0 @2016”.
So the question is, is there a minimum version of Windows 10 required, or is there some dot net library or something required that old Windows 10 versions don’t have?
Fortunately, I believe we were able to install Paratext 9.0 on all of those machines, but that also caused some confusion for these beginners, when things on their screen weren’t the same as on the presenter’s screen.
機器翻譯自 English
