Windows 2019 support?

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 19.09.2020 um 05:32 schrieb Brian Inglis:
> On 2020-09-17 09:52, Bill Stewart wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 7:58 AM Chris Bovitz wrote:
>> Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows.
>>> State [sic] January 2016 this includes Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
>>> and all later versions of Windows up to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.
>>>
>>> To me, this implies that Windows Server 2019 is supported, but is that
>>> true?  If so, could the FAQ be updated to show that?  Thanks.
>>>
>> Windows Server 2019 is just the server version of Windows 10 1809. In my
>> testing it works without any issues.
>>
>> My recommendation is for the FAQ to state:
>>
>> "Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows.
>> Since January 2016 this includes Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and
>> all later versions."
> Wanted to enumerate Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 progression to be clear, exclude S
> mode, add Cygwin32 on ARM, specify 64 bit only AMD/Intel, and remove any dates
> to avoid confusion in future, so patched to read:
>
> "1.2. What versions of Windows are supported?
>
> Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows, from
> Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server 2008 and all later versions of
> Windows, except Windows S mode due to its limitations. The 32 bit version of
> Cygwin also runs in the WOW64 32 bit environment on released 64 bit versions of
> Windows including ARM PCs, the 64 bit version of course only on 64 bit AMD/Intel
> compatible PCs."
You'd mention WOW64 but not Windows 32 bit. Is that on purpose? It might 
suggest to someone that cygwin does not run on a 32 bit processor but it 
does.

> but we are unsure how to get it regened and pushed onto the production web site.
>