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Re: End of support for 9x
On Aug 25 10:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.
It has been discussed and decided on cygwin-developers in this thread
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-02/msg00000.html
[...]
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-02/msg00054.html ff.
I don't see the overhead for sourceware and you given that sourceware
has enough disk space and nothing new will occur in the 1.5.25 based
distro. Setup.exe will choose the distro based on the OS of the client
machine and setup.ini for the 1.5.25 distro does not have to be
regenerated anymore. As usual, we will have to live with a certain
amount of confusion anyway.
Corinna
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