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Re: NT4?
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:53:07 +0100
- Subject: Re: NT4?
- References: <20110331203416.GB2606@calimero.vinschen.de> <AANLkTi=fKt8DnrkLkU5CiaBy83z_eOiwQWa8VWwvgRy5@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On 01/04/2011 07:07, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 31 March 2011 21:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Is anybody here still using Cygwin on Windows NT4 on a daily basis? I'm
>> asking because we're planning to drop NT4 support entirely and I would
>> like to know if there are lots of people who would be very sad if that
>> happens.
>
> FWIW, NT4 support in mintty has been broken since version 0.6.1 a year
> ago, and nobody reported it until Corinna stumbled across it in NT4
> testing a few days ago.
fwiw, I thought that I might have broken XWin on NT4 recently.
On checking, I discovered that XWin has been broken on NT4 without anyone
complaining since at least 1.6.3-1, released 2009-09-06. The
VerSetConditionMask() API we use to check we aren't running on Windows 2000
isn't available on NT4. :-). Also it looks like multiwindow mode has probably
not worked correctly for longer.
> Microsoft stopped supporting NT4 in 2004.
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