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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <announce.20150826093214.GA1136@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)

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Hi folks,


Now that Windows 2003 is finally out of long term support, and given
that XP's much-too-long-term support ended 2014, I'll drop support for
XP and Server 2003 from Cygwin End of 2015.

At this point I'll remove all my XP and 2003 test installations which
are already going mouldy for a long time.  I won't follow up on bug
reports which can't be reproduced on at least Windows Vista (was there
any XP-specific bug report in the last couple of years anyway?).

And during 2016 I will also slowly remove all the workarounds and
kludges necessary to keep these zombies running, thus simplifing the
codebase.

I'd love to do that rather sooner than later, but I wanted to give you
an early headsup.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

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             reply	other threads:[~2015-08-26  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-26  9:37 Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2015-08-26  9:51 ` Helmut Karlowski
2015-08-26 10:46   ` Helmut Karlowski
2015-08-26 10:56   ` wilson
2015-08-26 11:08     ` Helmut Karlowski
2015-08-26 11:23       ` briansw
2015-08-26 11:26         ` Helmut Karlowski
2015-08-26 12:00       ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-26 12:35         ` Helmut Karlowski
2015-08-26 13:50           ` Mike DePaulo
2015-08-26 13:30         ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-26 13:56           ` Stephen John Smoogen
2015-08-26 14:15             ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-26 14:26               ` Stephen John Smoogen
2015-08-27  1:20                 ` AC
2015-08-27  2:57                   ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-27  5:38                     ` AC
2015-08-27  8:34                       ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-28 18:51                       ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2015-08-27  4:50                   ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-27 20:34                   ` Peter A. Castro
2015-08-26 14:30               ` Frank Fesevur
2015-08-26 15:26           ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-27  1:05             ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-27 14:08               ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-27 23:01                 ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-27 14:18           ` Bryan Berns
2015-08-30  2:14             ` Duncan Roe
2015-08-30  2:52             ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-30 15:53               ` KHMan
2015-08-30 19:17 Mike DePaulo
2015-08-31 10:17 ` Mike DePaulo

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