From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 46024 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2016 14:38:48 -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 46006 invoked by uid 89); 10 Nov 2016 14:38:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-101.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=(unknown), H*R:D*cygwin.com, cygwinannounce, cygwin-announce X-HELO: drew.franken.de Received: from mail-n.franken.de (HELO drew.franken.de) (193.175.24.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:38:37 +0000 Received: from aqua.hirmke.de (aquarius.franken.de [193.175.24.89]) (Authenticated sender: aquarius) by mail-n.franken.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 91233721E2822 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:38:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from calimero.vinschen.de (calimero.vinschen.de [192.168.129.6]) by aqua.hirmke.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F36095E01E3 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:38:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id EAAE4A80461; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:38:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:06:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: WinXP is dead [WAS: 2.6.x: broken compatibility with Wine], Message-ID: <20161110143831.GB31771@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20161110151959.e652f67c30629dfe77836b0a@e-mail.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161110151959.e652f67c30629dfe77836b0a@e-mail.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00095.txt.bz2 --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1274 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 Win= XP > > > > > [...] > > > >=20 > > > > This has been answered. The problem with supporting XP into infini= tude > > > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > Corinna, >=20 > sorry, I missed that early announce. Is there any link? https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-08/msg00049.html Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYJIZnAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+g20cP/jKh37C7Q98lT6vvYJWyTEun Q1baENhKMOsobtv9LBA5XQ215Fz9xr2j0/XK12H3uMsXHr+J9AVyP5s/IDvejoEN i5h9OCYlaKihvRRTBZ4/wZZbQGg7DDu6MNSQnNRfPdTIdTYi42wQAU61esDHqLvM MPQs9n84RmnYE/93o6FLdJXXgzY6JcFQil/CY1CKPGHUJSqqLG+987/BqU54+Iht UI1+CqrsLjwSn2Wpjq/e92yVXhFDa3oC+VBuQjFNRazydwBsTUGOO2pmuAxbjV/L aWw1grdTEbokmPsOxRrpQjZaoaE2HuviNXuweRqaHqkH6tL+0Zo+eJSs6aPaIID2 wxIZBFRZCe/YwyZtbxvMU03y1auQKvT6IyH5UxAdHCvqd8cA6o1dCNSssCZNHuJz vdmEsFN3y7nLiSAxsDyo22rO2BeUzDK5FlI6/uYSrR82T3orYSFiKld2tXWFLdtv lPwEHLXbZMdekDo60AXhbiwnJsars9GsLJ3mGJI/o9ghzfu05FTzExdLq+mnl/ma 12CoVQlqrV0rLhJK7twby1gZl724kI4cAqiM1PwMknvTrAFiFmenaFPELYbHH+T2 lqCN43lGL4pLHgTGGDEq16gF21uQ48MptHelX2XETNFm3k3zy3qH/TucJBOkW18D 8XLBBtCUaCEVw5nMgSUe =dq4L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--