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Re: WinXP is dead [WAS: 2.6.x: broken compatibility with Wine]
- From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>
- To: Herbert Stocker <hersto at gmx dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:15:26 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: WinXP is dead [WAS: 2.6.x: broken compatibility with Wine]
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, Herbert Stocker wrote:
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:11:16 +0100
From: Herbert Stocker <hersto@gmx.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: WinXP is dead [WAS: 2.6.x: broken compatibility with Wine]
Hi,
Greetings, Herbert,
On 10.11.2016 04:21, Andrey Gursky wrote:
Regarding cygwin time machine. I can't use it, since cygwin
is compiled for MSYS2. And then it is being run under Wine
on GNU/Linux.
So we have two people who have difficulty using time machine.
i did download setup.exe and the binary packages of the last
version with XP support using the "Download but don't Install"
feature of setup.exe . (But i never tested if it's usable).
I don't understand. What difficulty did you have? It sounds like you
successfully downloaded (I presume) the 32-bit packages from the Time
Machine? What was difficult about it? I really want to know.
If it's just *slow*, well, yes, that's a know problem. :-/
Also, did you pull the source packages? I recall that one of the
requirements is that you provide the source packages along with the binary
packages.
(I expect Corinna will correct me if I'm wrong about that).
Now i would like to provide them on an HTTP Server.
If you do, please let me know so I can add reference to it in the Time
Machine webpage.
i think setup.exe can use such a repository.
If it helps, I have been collecting versions of setup as well. I just
don't have an exposed list for that (yet).
Right now i'm not sure if i have to ask for permission to do
so given it is open source.
Am i allowed to do this?
I think you have to say "Pretty Please with Sugar on Top!" :-D
best regards,
Herbert Stocker
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