From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64EA9388A77C for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2022 09:40:36 +0000 (GMT) Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=permerror header.from=cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=cygwin.com Received: from calimero.vinschen.de ([24.134.7.25]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue011 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MnJUy-1odkXu2XHI-00jFW5 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2022 10:40:34 +0100 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id AEE47A80A3A; Thu, 8 Dec 2022 10:40:33 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 10:40:33 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: gcc -pg broken after cygwin update? Message-ID: Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:naSnMHTUnHEDIwQNuR8niCsvkgOb5QWzWbbXcaJX7EzI6yLdcIm J+wGiwZOeqic4d+2AXkfJeHATxWAxciHUnSD8hOIexowBgQpRrWK8XFIa1iCJkKTua1D5Nk UcK6aCLIGjFGDhkj3yzPtDR8MAsKQbBFFkqWibSyxfb7yci5zQVVO9h7u9C7Vlgg/eaeDSc L7GszV74JyVJrqKbf2VWw== UI-OutboundReport: notjunk:1;M01:P0:NixMT13Z6CA=;gCeHvgxAz7vr7bSBusnqT5qs/zy 1IBnkC0BiOvTGv/rTbbVDDvCBqbapnkEhpVzkm4mwUTbVAMVOVvl2PXhIEvweFJRMAj1pIj1G nM4kTQzAy7cCsVxaGIEEAxrPX49Q/5euln+21ii02Xz9x3Brp6eHcF3AvBhPAsTGmi50ahxu5 M+0gwtsaVWjjsA8DuVeMxSOIfYmz3JY0aZmXMiIav5Jl2nIClhyUXAWsFWrrD02Z2x8K3ugUO JZRRuzjk1HXqo5LWUSKBPfRGbsLvRGv78S9TyVAe/3nXKfFi6j6tCzXxWvmnhZIW3UQJ1r5oi xPzCSULJHWKNkkQLVs3gFR/nkq7015VDrAokaBfdOHEu6LO2GS19eiUxsAOaAshC69h6kpPeJ s4ksYKdwLVK8xWDxp/aCVVWgL/0BbJ60DGG4WWhP84kXqyDGj5jaKbnsF0rypANsH3rMDuTGN Hy7pmKVoNP1WeZ/1E7Uqkuun6pUj5XhxquRCVQc063LuoxDmTj4oX0NTGKnwhgVnTGO8DVZy9 ++a42PPcFagSG343Efbk9H1OP81A8+YaxgC+sLhuwNWvlRCG9TS0X5iL5qhClX/XwxzS3gLmk 8NduwOEOlRUG1RKLZZdzOpCOJ+276EBRkLuaZiujFNMjDLuv3S6TVkTMhzwAuWmgqUbZKC3CD 7nkd5L7Ktzyh095aVzkn3vqlNKOjw8EsELNVr2gtwA== X-Spam-Status: No, score=-95.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On Dec 7 17:59, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > > contains patches dropping W7 and W8 support: > > Hmm... I understood that "dropping support" was not something that > would _require_ newer OS, but that it may not work (or not guaranteed > to work, patches not checked for compatibility, etc) on the older > OSes... Are you saying that W7 and W8 would be actively rejected? Supporting older OSes requires to keep workarounds in the code and sometimes leads to the inability to implement stuff in ways only available on newer OSes. Each deprecation of older OSes in Cygwin worked like this so far, and for 3.5 (late 2023) we announced the deprecation of Windows 7 and 8 since the first 3.3.0 release in October 2021. Corinna