On Mar 4 11:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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?
Yes. Are you going to port the W2K changes from the 64 bit branch into HEAD? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
