Re: WinXP is dead [WAS: 2.6.x: broken compatibility with Wine],

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Nov 10 15:19, Andrey Gursky wrote:
> > On Nov 10 04:21, Andrey Gursky wrote:
> > > On 11/9/2016 7:59 AM, Andrey Gursky wrote:
> > > > > P.S. Was it not too early to remove WinXP support? Though it is
> > > > > officially not supported anymore, there are still PCs running WinXP
> > > > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > This has been answered.  The problem with supporting XP into infinitude
> > > > is that every application would need to agree to do the same.
> > > > [...]
> > > [...]
> > Ending XP support was announced last year and only a year later we
> > actually dropped it.  So we don't support Windows XP anymore, but we
> > *would* support Wine.  However, the problem here is not on the Cygwin
> > side.
> > 
> > It seems Cygwin under Wine was not tested outside of XP compatibility
> > mode, or Wine doesn't support certain post-XP functions albeit claiming
> > Vista caompatibility.  Cygwin doesn't require any functionality which
> > isn't available in Vista.
> 
> Corinna,
> 
> sorry, I missed that early announce. Is there any link?

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-08/msg00049.html


Corinna

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