On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 04:39:45PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Mar 4 10:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:45:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >On Mar 4 05:19, Yaakov wrote: >> >> The attached patch removes all is_legacy and !IsWindowsNT() codepaths, >> >> as well as one part specific to Win2K. >> >> >> >> 2013-03-04 Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@...> >> >> >> >> Throughout, drop support for Cygwin 1.5 and Windows pre-XP. >> >> [...] >> > >> >I'm AFK for a while so I'll review that later today. But please keep >> >the W2K-specific part for now. 1.7.18 will still support Windows 2000 >> >so setup should do that as well. >> >> Sorry for jumping the gun on this. Why not just remove W2K support in >> 1.7.18? That would be one less difference with the 64-bit branch. When >> it gets merged into the trunk. > >Well, the reason was that I thought we should first advertise the fact >when releasing 1.7.18, along the lines of "this is the last release >which supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP without Service Pack 3".
Wouldn't sending out an announcement to cygwin-announce now saying that 1.7.18 won't be supporting these have roughly the same effect? cgf
