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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: gcc -pg broken after cygwin update?
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 16:32:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5IDnQAbYg4y355R@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM8PR09MB7095980E87ECA4219CFCA0F1A51D9@DM8PR09MB7095.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>

On Dec  8 14:47, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote:
> > for 3.5 (late 2023) we announced the deprecation of Windows 7 and 8
> > since the first 3.3.0 release in October 2021.
> 
> I saw that.  It did not look alarming.  It basically was like "you'll be on your own".
> 
> > Supporting older OSes requires to keep workarounds in the code and
> 
> Understood.  But you did not answer my question:
> 
> > Are you saying that W7 and W8 would be actively rejected?
> 
> and I meant by Cygwin?

Not "rejected" as such.  It just won't run correctly anymore on W7/8,
because

- the special treatment required for those OSes isn't in the DLL
  anymore, and
- the DLL uses functions not available on these OSes.


Corinna

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-08 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-07  8:58 Daniel Abrahamsson
2022-12-07 11:50 ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-12-07 12:40   ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-12-07 15:05     ` Daniel Abrahamsson
2022-12-07 15:09       ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-12-07 14:47   ` [EXTERNAL] " Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-12-07 15:07     ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-12-07 17:59       ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-12-08  9:40         ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-12-08 14:47           ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-12-08 15:32             ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2022-12-08 16:02               ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-12-08 16:06                 ` Corinna Vinschen

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