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RE: End of support for 9x
- From: "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron at pdinc dot us>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:21:20 -0400
- Subject: RE: End of support for 9x
We volunteer.
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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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