From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 99781 invoked by alias); 9 Nov 2016 18:23:40 -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 99765 invoked by uid 89); 9 Nov 2016 18:23:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=gursky, Gursky, WAS, answered X-HELO: mail-it0-f44.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f44.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f44.google.com) (209.85.214.44) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:23:38 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f44.google.com with SMTP id e187so217527101itc.0 for ; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 10:23:38 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PCd9V1fe7woxvQVXKGcFGpSJGz1mZXLYujEg6D9NwkI=; b=gShM6Kr3SjWmxkz2NDFbsij14AYIClBJCVU+cR86T0V6/fOiLR0DQeUEJ3FPIFeMcl FIsooInh8kE9bkiGR/dyuDWzOtIJ3KnBaruKdoWUVHed6LSLi9J2yVw6RT17tBOSZSyd flYAvF72x/7tDgXY3HQoxGWJ+ZQVAg1OxFuTx9tbinJX7qCY2c9xK5PQVktzGa9M13pe UdF2JoqPXIb/24dpHi4qrp5zehVmMjRuenT5sKnGKdVfhhRkqfSpAEf5e0WH5oI05U5v GYuC3qS2icLXqZddSZy8GogupkXZm3rZWJwoWwjClW06jJLFCsyLmTNVxPdk5G3cVUFx YhyA== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngveJptCF5nBV80X5VSq+6ss7UoLACgTXabMeQ7GYRWUI57OuT27Z4wn38RAJ/KSSmA== X-Received: by 10.36.26.78 with SMTP id 75mr15574532iti.74.1478715814444; Wed, 09 Nov 2016 10:23:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h142sm9726289itb.1.2016.11.09.10.23.33 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 09 Nov 2016 10:23:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: WinXP is dead [WAS: 2.6.x: broken compatibility with Wine] To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20161109135955.eaa43dafd93c1be2b86554a8@e-mail.ua> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:23:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161109135955.eaa43dafd93c1be2b86554a8@e-mail.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 On 11/9/2016 7:59 AM, Andrey Gursky wrote: > > P.S. Was it not too early to remove WinXP support? Though it is > officially not supported anymore, there are still PCs running WinXP > (and Wine). Also there are still systems, I've heard, using some > embedded Windows, that shares the same code with WinXP, thus making it > not yet truly obsolete. Additionally a lot of work has been done by > Cygwin contributors to support this OS and I believe the most of bugs > have been workarounded, while due to stopped development it is not > likely one has to spend time solving new problems. So was it really > worth to drop the hardly crafted code? Are there already some > worthwhile advantages? Why wasn't it possible to switch Cygwin WinXP > support to just "not officially supported"? (kindly asking) > This has been answered. The problem with supporting XP into infinitude is that every application would need to agree to do the same. Improvements to the OS API would not be able to be used so there are trade-offs for the continued support of an OS that is no longer supported. The code becomes unwieldy to maintain because a change needs to be tested on other systems. Security maintenance becomes impossible because the OS vendor no longer supports the older OS. There is the cygwin time machine, USE IT if you need old software for old OS. -- cyg Simple -- 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