Re: Windows 95 support ?

[Max Bowsher <maxb1 at ukf dot net>]

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Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>> From: Corinna Vinschen
>> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 6:38 AM
>> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>> Subject: Re: Windows 95 support ?
>>
>> On Apr 21 12:59, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> [snip]
>>> Ok, but the question remains: does cygwin still target windows 95?
>> Just the setup tool has some problem, apparently.
>> Cygwin still runs on 95, which will probably change at one 
>> point, since it's getting incredibly awkward to support it.
>>
>>
>> Corinna
>>
> 
> Perhaps, but as long as the Cygwin DLL etc do support 95, it seems that
> Setup should be self contained and not require W95 users (all dozen of them
> ;-)) to hunt down DLLs all over the internet.  Perhaps I'll whip up a
> regular Setup installer which includes the necessary redistributables.

Why bother?

To put this in perspective, this affects only users who are using
Windows 95 original edition (*not* any OSR version), *AND* have not
installed a non-ancient Internet Explorer version.

For this tiny minority, is it *really* worth the confusion of a separate
 Cygwin setup bundle, as compared with the alternative of just writing a
FAQ entry explaining how to get the necessary prerequisites?

Max.
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