On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 10:55 -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > On 2020-05-05 5:05 am, Rainer Emrich wrote: > > Am 05.05.2020 um 10:54 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > > Therefore it might be a good idea to bump the default for these > > > Cygwin-related headers to at least 0x0600. > > > > > > Setting them to 0x0602 sounds like a good idea, but as long as we didn't > > > drop Vista or W7 support it might be premature. > > > > > > Btw., checking Cygwin sources for Vista and W7-specific code, it turned > > > out that actually very few lines of code handle Vista or W7-specific > > > workarounds. The advantage of removing the code is pretty minor, so I > > > didn't push the changes. While it's a bad idea to keep Vista and W7 > > > running (at least attached to the internet), we can support them a while > > > longer. > > I would expect support for Windows 7 as long as the Micsrosoft ESU > > program is active.
We don't work for Microsoft, so as an independent project, we'll support Windows 7 only as long as we feel is viable and valuable. As Corinna said, for now that's the case, but nobody here is guaranteeing anything beyond that. > I would just like to chime in that it would be a crying shame if Cygwin > were to ever drop support for Windows 7. There are many people, myself > one, who are dead set against Windows 10. "Ever"?!? You do realize that, ESU aside, Windows 7 is out of support and therefore should be assumed to be vulnerable? -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
