Re: [PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Jan 14 10:54, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 09:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jan 13 15:13, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > Show a MessageBox warning if we are running on a Windows version which
> > > we have deprecated Cygwin support for:
> > >
> > > - Windows 6.0 (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008)
> > > - 32-bit Windows
> > >
> > > This warning can be disabled with '--allow-unsupported-windows'.
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Notes:
> > >     Not sure if this is needed, or maybe this is just annoying to the ~3% of
> > >     users who are running effected OSes.  But maybe we want to annoy them
> > >     into doing something about it?
> >
> > Question is, how often should setup show this message?  Every time might
> > really be a bit annoying.  Some kind of "I saw it, now leave me alone,
> > at least for a while" kind of function would be great.
> 
> Eh. The installer tries to add icons to my desktop every time I run it
> unless I provide a command-line argument every time. This behaviour
> seems no more or less annoying to me, and I think having users see
> that warning is much more important than adding a desktop icon.

Point.


Corinna