From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 93155 invoked by alias); 25 May 2016 14:56:06 -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 93146 invoked by uid 89); 25 May 2016 14:56:05 -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*i:sk:CACoZoo, H*f:sk:CACoZoo, H*i:sk:D0Ng@ma, H*MI:sk:D0Ng@ma 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 14:56:04 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 41769A80936; Wed, 25 May 2016 16:56:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 01:32:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Question about XP support Message-ID: <20160525145602.GB8416@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="TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00316.txt.bz2 --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1505 On May 25 10:22, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > > On 25 May 2016 at 06:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > 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? >=20 > I like this idea. I too have some isolated XP VM stations (mine > deliberately have zero network connection; "defender updates" do NOT > close security holes) that I currently plan to continue using until > I've learned enough programming myself to rewrite the windows only > utilities I have running in these stations. A version change from > from 2.x to 3.x at the official end of XP support would make it a very > clean marker. 2.6, probably. This is much more than you got back in the days when we dropped support for 9x, NT4, W2K ;) Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXRb0CAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gvUYQAJU56Rbvp+vF65WomZO4A8mV HkY9GQDygmivCCxkDo0UdiaEVB8g+Z0G0nJq3mPQZtWDmvG15zr9xzTE9Np/13+t +YaehuDYgJPAiuWuKUMUykAir8SrRdC66iytTf0J1ypcHu4awxLt40QQPedFMfRn JaJHT7dCf0HpSQRwrhtum2093dS419l57DxL9bFcDVasWZyr+2Lww5w00GJQi3zH xgjFWdpgfDSMHJN3cipHWgneZKGfiu63nXr7YSuA/GV3Vyn8nMdir2xY9GfJ1YiO banAiG4ACKPMssrUTT+VvoH20aJIT27VVVsc9AzJsNKX3acr7LANCZTNetzHN4HJ 8qqsJM9jVLvBuY/exzx0p/K8z2gGCicf95XUr0t5V1byxFkka4Qmvn2DsjIAgxEN uNr80xCSuM4WOq6M9IQNINcH96w41c9snFCFLIiGQDrPfRkX0aW/y9Kouqw6Rjx4 IwzByIU7LrY1Dq1sWgD8xy9Zz3lUexwOWyvXt6wY7PxFvKbGZM3BuIDtRIDPJ4E6 yYeGIu86ekXld/3vfIO4+bI/Hv2mj6eEQAnBsaSWjfp9Jd4pqWKs2QYuPYqVtN5w /Xp9yIqvZ33iJYlFTfYEqEvinTNkmzylisMF37nfmpkgbh5LqbyeQA1x9mlaIwRv gFBqi5XrBnSgLGkHpaB/ =ps5H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc--