From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 53596 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2016 18:09:45 -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 53581 invoked by uid 89); 11 Feb 2016 18:09:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=cyg, H*MI:sk:56BB722, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: mail-io0-f174.google.com Received: from mail-io0-f174.google.com (HELO mail-io0-f174.google.com) (209.85.223.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:09:42 +0000 Received: by mail-io0-f174.google.com with SMTP id l127so62993543iof.3 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:09:42 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=f6ldeeXmZRR/O5hOOVW7NNFcpc7PNkSYtAuOwGmsMf4=; b=UjvgAPVb/WCiP46K9Kil1e2S5XVXHT2V69HSt1KLVTzIZB9p6FFzUQ+dW3RnhZFtsJ IKbGltLkoWJac7UC+Fzj7Pmo5PmeR9e/0FFz04fEB+7u+kst5p7bK34/6Sn239oFqgBW +I4SmfNBXW9Qh+iYc52n13ACVfh6YuPCWJS/ZI+0W39sHAcuEDEBkwKzJfY0lP/8HsTG dUdOG3x+ySmnohMeOfyrT6JmX3UMSXLFx9ArMC0UdeovjC1PMJpfIT+NOnJ64KsaaXK7 eRcEPNgFCQzsbmHsRsgtoue+Jcctie29BAvRES1mPOCKLUg+SWCfWO9yWcxU/dKpD9ad MeNA== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YOTKmUt5L2iRbRFfNB74KyaapGOpldMacrTvhk3ShvxGM4l/fwk1qxAB3/n13jdgEg== X-Received: by 10.107.29.209 with SMTP id d200mr45422712iod.27.1455214181043; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.9] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a5sm12515887iga.7.2016.02.11.10.09.40 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:09:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <56BA9DB2.3080106@cygwin.com> <56BB6FD1.6000208@molconn.com> <56BB7220.5010101@cygwin.com> From: cyg Simple X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <56BCCE7D.6040605@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:09:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56BB7220.5010101@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00163.txt.bz2 On 2/10/2016 12:23 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2016-02-10 11:13, LMH wrote: >> Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>> On 2016-02-09 19:37, Jonathan Brenster wrote: >>>> I saw a post a number of months back indicating that XP support would >>>> start to phase out in Dec '15. >>>> >>>> Is there a last version or intended last version that still officially >>>> supports it? >>> >>> Support for XP has yet to be removed but that is subject to change at >>> any time. >> >> I would find it very helpful if there was official notification to this >> list when a version is released that no longer supports XP. I am sure >> that other users like myself who still have XP on some machines would >> also appreciate notification. > > That will surely be mentioned in the announcement of whichever version > of the 'cygwin' package this takes effect. > A git tag would be helpful for LAST-XP supported version. There are certainly plenty of XP still being used that takes advantage of Cygwin. The problem will be the other packages that stop support of older Cygwin versions. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple