From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Quick query about Windows versions
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 14:14:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5b633e2-4679-2357-b94c-b1dd18cc654e@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200401093608.GW3261@calimero.vinschen.de>
Am 01.04.2020 um 11:36 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Mar 31 18:58, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 31/03/2020 17:24, ASSI wrote:
>>> Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps writes:
>>>> Just thought I should ask: is there a perferred version of Windows to
>>>> build packages on, or does it not matter?
>>> Whatever supported version of Windows you use, I'd say.
>>>
>>>> I currently build on Windows 7, following the tradition of building on
>>>> the oldest supported platform, but I have no idea if this is needed with
>>>> Cygwin.
>>> No Windows 7 system should still have the ability to connect to the
>>> internet… so no, I don't think you should even try to build there.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Achim.
>> Yep, that's why I asked. I'll upgrade the VM to Windows 10 then, if it
>> makes no difference to Cygwin.
> None at all. Right now we still support all versions since Windows
> Vista, so any breakage building stuff on these systems is the fault
> of the Cygwin core. Other than that, Achim is right, of course :)
Unless your package would use w32api and explicitly detect the build
system version to include more or less features depending on it...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-01 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-31 14:15 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2020-03-31 16:24 ` ASSI
2020-03-31 17:58 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2020-04-01 9:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-04-01 12:14 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2020-04-01 17:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-04-01 13:59 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
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