From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 102425 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2015 20:00:28 -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 102342 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2015 20:00:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SPF_PASS,TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: ripple.fruitbat.org Received: from 173-228-5-241.dsl.static.fusionbroadband.com (HELO ripple.fruitbat.org) (173.228.5.241) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:00:22 +0000 Received: from ming.fruitbat.org (ming.fruitbat.org [192.168.55.2]) by ripple.fruitbat.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/fruitwall-1.7) with ESMTP id t7RJxcnX031480 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:59:38 -0700 Received: from ming.fruitbat.org (ming.fruitbat.org [192.168.55.2]) by ming.fruitbat.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/fruithub-1.11) with ESMTP id t7RJxb44015922 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:59:37 -0700 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:34:00 -0000 From: "Peter A. Castro" To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support In-Reply-To: <55DE5A23.9080406@acarver.net> Message-ID: References: <55DE5A23.9080406@acarver.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00492.txt.bz2 On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, AC wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:30:27 -0700 > From: AC > Subject: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and > Server 2003 support > > On 2015-08-26 06:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On 26 August 2015 at 07:42, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Greetings, Stephen John Smoogen! >>> >>>>> Anyway, on the topic: All I could ask is to give us a notice when the final >>>>> build for XP is available, so that we could prepare own mirrors. >>> >>>> You will need more than mirrors. You will need to set up a parallel >>>> stack of builders and other tools because this will be a fork of >>>> anything compiled against Cygwin from then on. You will also need to >>>> look at how you are handling any bugs or problems utilities have in >>>> rebuilding (but that is a longer term issue). Having had to do this in >>>> the past, it will be better if you try to call this something >>>> different. The reason being is that if you keep the name then when a >>>> support ticket comes in from a user with Cygwin is it yours.. is it >>>> the one they downloaded from the main site.. is it a version in >>>> between? >>> >>> You're misunderstanding my daily use of Cygwin. I'm not compiling anything, >>> not cygwin-related anyway. >>> I'm using it as a bridging gap between sane scripting abilities of dash/make >>> and insane requirements of compiling tools such as BRCC. >>> And since Vista+ doesn't have support for 16-bit subsystem, I need XP VM to >>> compile my projects. >>> >> >> Ah ok. If it is just a one man operation then an archive of the trees >> at a certain time are all that is needed. If you have a large Windows >> XP environment you are rolling out something to then you need to make >> sure you can compile and deal with the 'forked' version... which I am >> guessing that some segment of XP admins have to do. >> > > Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a > mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I > just want to make sure I can reinstall Cygwin packages if needed. There is one other alternative to having your own historical mirror that I will plug: the Cygwin Time Machine It is a constant archive of all versions of Cygwin going back to 2002 (32-bit) and 2013 (64-bit), added to daily as newer versions of Cygwin are released. Works with the standard Setup install tool. -- --=> Peter A. Castro Email: doctor at fruitbat dot org / Peter dot Castro at oracle dot com "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- 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