Last Version of Cygwin for XP

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sat Feb 13 17:20:00 GMT 2016


On Feb 12 16:58, Erik Soderquist wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> > The last time this topic came up, I came away with the impression that the only reason Cygwin hasn’t jettisoned XP support yet is that it’s more work than ignoring that old code.
> 
> I have the same impression.  Perhaps Corinna can confirm that?

Basically, yes.  The next version of Cygwin will still run under XP with
a high likelyhood since I didn't remove any code yet, and I didn't addd
any OS function calls not available on XP.

However, I don't test on XP or 2K3 anymore, and I'll mostly ignore bug
reports related to running under XP in future.  As soon as a new version
of Cygwin won't run on XP/2K3 anymore, I'll let everyone know early
enough.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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