From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 49079 invoked by alias); 29 May 2016 13:01:30 -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 49071 invoked by uid 89); 29 May 2016 13:01:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: Yes, score=6.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FOREIGN_BODY,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=von, diese, auf, E-Mail X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (HELO mout.kundenserver.de) (212.227.17.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 29 May 2016 13:01:19 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([95.91.244.97]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MF9xL-1bHhqr2yYV-00GL2r for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 15:01:14 +0200 Subject: Re: Question about XP support To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <57449FA6.8050704@gmx.de> <20160525100736.GB17601@calimero.vinschen.de> <20160525145450.GA8416@calimero.vinschen.de> From: Thomas Wolff Message-ID: <574AE819.3010208@towo.net> Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 16:56:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160525145450.GA8416@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:XFf+mjMTHkA=:Y0HpDHkrHgCdvSJkbypp+0 yXGqJux+nu26RI33ZI4VJvWatSCnIsoE0xjF+tuNHx8LISomgi6d1dGs2jC/dL7bfJ5VQz5ys KDzaWaYswR6CKBoDNsLfd+OP0rwK2c9m1PE3JTaBysIDQ08u6WV2g+j+zgW+W6Z+C42WhWMY7 QYqWdDaSx+QUKflW00N5Y1xCwl5Ze/bRksf4UD1/DGy5Zngwm4Sp1HZXO+qX/ti+dd3jmHPBl TKIkmC92RDui9v4VkhTqLkshubhsre8wPuiGhOA47kgHtegQxIuZQ+MbBIAUFkmVxCbEzGSEU xZ5YFOsfzcK6Y/RXj9WBw9YpK+VJny+6twB4AjixKrXghqq4dpXnNtkcwOwdfqZ21RcSMzKYP RhhAi069P1l+wsB774/mRaznk9vBQ1hpwV9nsElsjkTTWP+pfC99wHxJ96t7evFOqXZ6ekyWS cMdoiafYIrirGd4oCsYKfTbskF/RdSlmOIKl4gQz8vduBoRcPJ6VV8VYSpkZPqF9GUGu1enxH 6TOYrQBDQGzhs8lBUQrlPFw2ByUNYleGhIaL2WqFjebsnJv2tcMmByxdpA9E44jqTwST7Aa96 rwRHyaGaj0dnK0ch1KNf1aCHhr+FxcBfgJ2bP0+1uhUHKZPSguYU2gw9BrRuxaLN/eQmIeDZx yymP60OgbhwqMMzLXhkkGggBSt4AfW28XOhdkTkOIlrlDW8HVlZnhXHa5XdZQtA2iN37YtUcQ cp9FjodtIbFey3qxpRVq13WHmMjMSJQB6Q0/Ww== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00378.txt.bz2 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 wr= ote: >>> 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 --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren gepr=C3=BCft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- 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