[PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Mon Jan 17 18:06:44 GMT 2022


On 2022-01-17 03:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 16 17:55, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
>> This reminds me: It's probably useful for me to support 32-bit even after
>> Cygwin no longer does for my commercial project(s). Which probably means I
>> should release said package soon (I couldn't get the rebase to work on
>> 32-bit before, will ask another question soon. Are all the 32-bit packages
>> going offline after support ends or will it remain as a kind of graveyard?

> This hasn't been decided yet.  I *guess* we keep the 32 bit packages
> around for a while.

Like other setup and package versions, they should remain available as 
long as Peter Castro maintains the Cygwin Time Machine at 
http://www.fruitbat.org/ subsite 
http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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