From: Rainer Emrich <rainer@emrich-ebersheim.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Default mingw _WIN32_WINNT
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 11:05:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5dfce652-c039-64af-e839-2bda021f7437@emrich-ebersheim.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200505085436.GC3947@calimero.vinschen.de>
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Hi Corinna,
Am 05.05.2020 um 10:54 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> Therefore it might be a good idea to bump the default for these
> Cygwin-related headers to at least 0x0600.
>
> Setting them to 0x0602 sounds like a good idea, but as long as we didn't
> drop Vista or W7 support it might be premature.
>
> Btw., checking Cygwin sources for Vista and W7-specific code, it turned
> out that actually very few lines of code handle Vista or W7-specific
> workarounds. The advantage of removing the code is pretty minor, so I
> didn't push the changes. While it's a bad idea to keep Vista and W7
> running (at least attached to the internet), we can support them a while
> longer.
I would expect support for Windows 7 as long as the Micsrosoft ESU
program is active.
Cheers
Rainer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-05 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-04 21:42 Yaakov Selkowitz
2020-05-05 3:15 ` Biswapriyo Nath
2020-05-05 8:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-05-05 9:05 ` Rainer Emrich [this message]
2020-05-05 10:06 ` JonY
2020-05-05 10:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-05-11 14:55 ` Chris Wagner
2020-05-11 16:53 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2020-05-11 23:08 ` Chris Wagner
2020-05-08 0:33 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2020-05-08 9:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
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