Re: Question about XP support

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 25.05.2016 um 16:54 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On May 25 09:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On 25 May 2016 at 06:07, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 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.
May I propose 2.7, to suggest "needs Windows 7"? And 2.siX would be the
last to support Xp, to have some memorable acoustic connotation...:)
Thomas

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