From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 74049 invoked by alias); 24 May 2016 16:59:08 -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 74020 invoked by uid 89); 24 May 2016 16:59:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=conversation X-HELO: mail-lf0-f50.google.com Received: from mail-lf0-f50.google.com (HELO mail-lf0-f50.google.com) (209.85.215.50) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 24 May 2016 16:58:56 +0000 Received: by mail-lf0-f50.google.com with SMTP id e131so8614694lfb.0 for ; Tue, 24 May 2016 09:58:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to; bh=MpIJMvm9bMp4Rj5QjyWF//FJ3VDPf7RfJ+ScwjTK2rk=; b=myjzF1kST9+9jIbfHaG2N/+cfxLd2LPibIXHm7Nx1v2eLMiqfqL1Pr93R8+7W4uXkB xmIX8/RAdVCkaencl9/iYjgAh0Ob5jF7DqWqOl5KAYleM2IwXx0DmuNjKo4Yr8M78CAt wrP7OEbGGO6NREcvXt0oOyleHjZ5vu1qDknbAMqIs5YDoKzc1xKk9Vte913F1gxZOC+T kMjNG5Tn0nVAzXjqBCeDfE0YEHjT4n+8fV6EdUVtt/NCyaO6W7JazfW2fRMu/CQMWN5t 4XvZe+eCJZCRBMqmiwfIqXj0+bcrj+ZiOSQ7HwWGeoglcoRCmX94bYvJjdgNtJp0HTNG LM3g== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tKqspufM97CTeZfm5Q0Iyf1EshQbPuz1K5wdgBIBvaML7N0Kw7EDJ1bg992y9zSFP+bouwe7i+FmECssA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.25.143.202 with SMTP id r193mr365028lfd.223.1464109132835; Tue, 24 May 2016 09:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.199.169 with HTTP; Tue, 24 May 2016 09:58:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 00:58:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Question about XP support From: Erik Soderquist To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00296.txt.bz2 >> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >> I thought that support for Windows XP had been removed from Cygwin. >> Yet the Cygwin home page says: >> >> https://cygwin.com/ >> >> "The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially >> released x86 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows, starting with >> Windows XP SP3." > > There has been notice that XP support will be dropped at some point in > the future, but as far as I know, that point has not been reached. > > As I understood the conversation, XP support will be dropped when the > coding work for a new fix/feature/package is more than the coding work > to simply drop XP support. There is also the "cygwin time machine" available http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwintimemachine -- 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