nuke cygwin legacy?

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Wed Feb 6 20:05:00 GMT 2013


Am 06.02.2013 03:21, schrieb Yaakov (Cygwin/X):
> On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:56:42 +0100, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>> It doesn't matter that it is not secure.
> Yes, it does.  IMHO it is irresponsible on our part to distribute
> unmaintained or knowingly vulnerable software, and it reflects badly on
> the Cygwin project.
>
>
> Yaakov
Just a proposal (without advocating further) to avoid the problem of 
providing insecure software for current systems:
What about modifying setup.exe so that 1.5 can be installed *only* on 
legacy systems?
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Thomas



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