On May 25 09:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 25 May 2016 at 06:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On May 24 20:38, Herbert Stocker wrote: > >> On 24.05.2016 18:44, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > >> > I thought that support for Windows XP had been removed from Cygwin. > >> > >> No, has not yet been removed. > >> And i'm sooo happy about this. > > > > Uh oh, bad timing... > > > > The next release 2.5.2 introduces the first non-XP compatible code. > > It's in a seldom used corner of the code and it doesn't require > > functions unavailable on XP, so it will very likely not break 99% of the > > existing applications yet. > > > > But the next release after will very likely break XP support entirely. > > Would this be something to move to 3.x because there seems to be a lot > of people who come onto the list a lot. That way they know they can > use 2.5.1 and that is the last 'stable' release they need to 'fork' > from as say Cygnus-XP1 to keep going? The XP-breaking release will certainly be a major release. I doubt it's called 3.0, though. 2.6 is more likely. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat