From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: WinXP is dead [WAS: 2.6.x: broken compatibility with Wine],
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161110143831.GB31771@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161110151959.e652f67c30629dfe77836b0a@e-mail.ua>
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On Nov 10 15:19, Andrey Gursky wrote:
> > On Nov 10 04:21, Andrey Gursky wrote:
> > > On 11/9/2016 7:59 AM, Andrey Gursky wrote:
> > > > > P.S. Was it not too early to remove WinXP support? Though it is
> > > > > officially not supported anymore, there are still PCs running WinXP
> > > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > This has been answered. The problem with supporting XP into infinitude
> > > > is that every application would need to agree to do the same.
> > > > [...]
> > > [...]
> > Ending XP support was announced last year and only a year later we
> > actually dropped it. So we don't support Windows XP anymore, but we
> > *would* support Wine. However, the problem here is not on the Cygwin
> > side.
> >
> > It seems Cygwin under Wine was not tested outside of XP compatibility
> > mode, or Wine doesn't support certain post-XP functions albeit claiming
> > Vista caompatibility. Cygwin doesn't require any functionality which
> > isn't available in Vista.
>
> Corinna,
>
> sorry, I missed that early announce. Is there any link?
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-08/msg00049.html
Corinna
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-10 14:20 Andrey Gursky
2016-11-10 14:38 ` Andrey Gursky
2016-11-10 15:06 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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2016-11-10 16:14 WinXP is dead [WAS: 2.6.x: broken compatibility with Wine] Andrey Gursky
2016-11-10 19:21 ` Andrey Gursky
2016-11-10 3:22 Andrey Gursky
2016-11-10 9:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-11 0:15 ` Herbert Stocker
2016-11-11 1:04 ` Peter A. Castro
2016-11-11 11:33 ` Herbert Stocker
2016-11-12 3:29 ` cyg Simple
2016-11-12 4:34 ` Peter A. Castro
2016-11-09 13:00 2.6.x: broken compatibility with Wine Andrey Gursky
2016-11-09 18:23 ` WinXP is dead [WAS: 2.6.x: broken compatibility with Wine] cyg Simple
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