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RE: End of support for 9x


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:15 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: End of support for 9x
> 
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Aug 25 08:34, Terry Dabbs wrote:
> >>It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on 
> Windows 93 and 
> >>95.  This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported 
> >>software', but where a vendor has written applications I must 
> >>interface with that were written for those platforms and 
> they will not 
> >>upgrade, for reasons of their own.  I hope there will be 
> some spot out 
> >>there that will keep the last compatible versions available.
> >
> >It's fixed decided that we keep the entire 1.5.25 based net distro 
> >around for those user who are still running Cygwin on Windows 9x or 
> >users having very specific needs.
> 
> I don't remember deciding this.  I have very mixed feelings 
> about keeping two different versions around.  It adds 
> overhead to sourceware.org (and to me) and it is going to 
> generate confusion here.
> 
> Maybe we should find an off-site person to host the 
> unchanging 1.5.25 release if people really want to use it.  
> The one thing that is missing amongst all of the "It's a 
> pity" talk is someone actually volunteering to do something to help.
> 
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