On Jul 3 13:53, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 01/04/2011 07:07, Andy Koppe wrote: > > On 31 March 2011 21:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> Is anybody here still using Cygwin on Windows NT4 on a daily basis? I'm > >> asking because we're planning to drop NT4 support entirely and I would > >> like to know if there are lots of people who would be very sad if that > >> happens. > > > > FWIW, NT4 support in mintty has been broken since version 0.6.1 a year > > ago, and nobody reported it until Corinna stumbled across it in NT4 > > testing a few days ago. > > fwiw, I thought that I might have broken XWin on NT4 recently. > > On checking, I discovered that XWin has been broken on NT4 without anyone > complaining since at least 1.6.3-1, released 2009-09-06. The > VerSetConditionMask() API we use to check we aren't running on Windows 2000 > isn't available on NT4. :-). Also it looks like multiwindow mode has probably > not worked correctly for longer. > > > Microsoft stopped supporting NT4 in 2004.
And Cygwin stops support with 1.7.10. Rest in peace, NT4. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
