On Jul 24 18:05, Dave Korn wrote: > On 24 July 2006 17:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Now that Microsoft has finally dropped support for Windows 98 and Me, > > we're going to drop 9x support as well. > > > > What we're planning to do is this: > > > > The complete net distribution gets copied to a new place. This new > > place is the distro kept for people running 9x. There is no further > > development in this distribution. Maintainers may decide whether or not > > they apply fixes to the packages in the 9x distro, or keep it up to date > > at all. > > > > The "normal" net distribution will continue to be the normal distro. It > > might work on 9x, but there's no guarantee at all that it will continue > > to do so. > > > > The setup tool (hello setup developers?) should either be split into two > > versions, one for 9x, one for NT. Or the setup tool should choose the > > download path depending on the OS it's running on. Or something > > completely different. > > > > Comments? Ideas? > > > It might also be a reasonable idea to fork a win9x bugfixes branch off > current CVS, if there's the least likelihood that anyone will want to fix the > occasional bug in the 9x version of the dll.
Yep, right. I forgot to mention this. I have serious doubts, but a dead branch is better than no branch. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
