From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 94049 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2016 17:05:24 -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 94040 invoked by uid 89); 11 Jan 2016 17:05:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=measures, warrant, maintaining, erik X-HELO: mail-lf0-f43.google.com Received: from mail-lf0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-lf0-f43.google.com) (209.85.215.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:05:23 +0000 Received: by mail-lf0-f43.google.com with SMTP id h129so22139381lfh.3 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:05:22 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.25.148.142 with SMTP id w136mr29944807lfd.31.1452531919521; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:05:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.25.86.196 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:05:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5692EEA8.4000703@gmail.com> References: <56924AB1.1070903@gmx.de> <5692DBF5.3040100@comcast.net> <5692EEA8.4000703@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Windows XP Support From: Erik Soderquist To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00119.txt.bz2 On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Juan Miguel Navarro Mart=C3=ADnez wrote: > No software version can live forever, ... Personally, I have to disagree with this statement, or at least offer an amendment... I have some things still running in DOS 5 in a virtual machine because that is the most effective environment to run them in, and I don't expect any future OS to change that. Does this mean I have these accessible to the outside world? Absolutely not. So while I do see use cases for very long outdated packages, I will also agree these use cases are not mainstream by any means, and if your use case does warrant an old package, appropriate measures to isolate the old packages also need to be taken. That said, I will be making an internal mirror for my XP stations before XP support is dropped as well. I can certainly understand not maintaining backward compatibility for an old system that should no longer be placed in a position where it can be attacked. -- Erik -- 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