RE: Supported platforms and code merge

[Harold Hunt <Harold at compasstechnologies dot com>]

I don't see any such changes on the FAQ at
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/faq.html, are you referring to
another FAQ?

I agree that the how-to should reference the FAQ, but I do want to include
at least some sort of pointer to the effect that, at the time of writing,
Win9X is not supported.  Just so somebody doesn't waste their time. . .

Harold L Hunt II
Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 5:28 PM
To: Cygx (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Supported platforms and code merge

Harold,
    Did you get a chance to look at the cygwin X-free FAQ? I've got a list
of things to be changed, which includes a lot of versioning style info.

How about the how-to focus on the mechanics of installing, perhaps
referencing the FAQ where extra information is needed? I;m suggesting this
so we minimise the number of duplicate explanations we end up with - to
minise our required maintenance efforts

Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <Harold@compasstechnologies.com>
To: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 7:58 AM
Subject: Supported platforms and code merge


> Suhaib,
>
> Are the following statements correct?
>
> "Currently, the only supported Win32 platforms are Windows NT 4.0 SP4+ and
> Windows 2000; Windows 95 and Windows 98 are not supported."
>
> "Cygwin allows the compilation of the XFree86 source on Win32; several
> patches were made to the XFree86 source to make XFree86 actually compile
and
> run under Cygwin; it appears that those patches have been merged into the
> XFree86 4.0 source tree."
>
> Again, these are statement from my installation how-to, so I want to make
> sure that they are correct.  Thanks,
>
> Harold L Hunt II
> Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com
>
>