From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 89710 invoked by alias); 25 May 2016 14:55:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 89693 invoked by uid 89); 25 May 2016 14:55:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-96.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_PBL,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:g@mail., corinnacygwincygwincom, corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from ipbcc04766.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (188.192.71.102) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 May 2016 14:54:53 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id D79C0A80936; Wed, 25 May 2016 16:54:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 20:03:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Question about XP support Message-ID: <20160525145450.GA8416@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <57449FA6.8050704@gmx.de> <20160525100736.GB17601@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00315.txt.bz2 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1261 On May 25 09:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 25 May 2016 at 06:07, Corinna Vinschen wro= te: > > 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. >=20 > 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 --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXRby6AAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gRKYQAJhPtOzyTEHmHOiehHewDfW2 dx3sEJvCRzcA9xjvtHP+btDjRHEFywFj5o8lh6k37tfYGviARTApjKZzbizZhmCv DRH+vR8jsrDTAvxbwnty3b0suH/thXNTxu5T7+sZgeY2nuHHToUQbNs3PjMsF1KK LgCsLgeoZHlhxoTDWMxYRAI9dmjTDUgwBTzfjuOrcUcYcpMi1qfjMZGcB/TNByYb PRbDsZJYqoS3AYtCpguk+GrzZrOihFJ38/M9nPEP4M8kWProz82/CS7Y/hTReP6a TcilzkKxyMdHmflwkfSLdguvEuTdcd/wXWQIi4ohkO+PKp71bX6iZpc6GknMTjim 7TM07k52iJAcVUtOYmE1W2CyFDORtn8YZpdLkSFh35yfr28PHUayoVTR0KMcKZ+0 3ODoWN7NrMeQTCED+plS1UqEROIfEwlvK3Gc/2h03ken4EVAdlUopjJLjHVfjcB8 Bwwyti6wBnSv+30C4P2zhN0Dw/vY3mGDx7GFG3YI1Ohwpvj3lt+TnttF+EYmAPB8 k22TRdv4YvTS9F8dQI1gGMkhPl3OvVyUyOGyQu4EM1vcVQ4GZfN0jigkLeNOqfqa +e3izNNoaGh0SAhOttbm/wNnr5JCDvgdpeZkgMf4pcVrtWXcHJCjZsLf64DLvXhx NZYqD0b9rio3oeRPbF5T =EnNF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--