On 2015-08-26 06:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 26 August 2015 at 07:42, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: >> Greetings, Stephen John Smoogen! >> >>>> Anyway, on the topic: All I could ask is to give us a notice when the final >>>> build for XP is available, so that we could prepare own mirrors. >> >>> You will need more than mirrors. You will need to set up a parallel >>> stack of builders and other tools because this will be a fork of >>> anything compiled against Cygwin from then on. You will also need to >>> look at how you are handling any bugs or problems utilities have in >>> rebuilding (but that is a longer term issue). Having had to do this in >>> the past, it will be better if you try to call this something >>> different. The reason being is that if you keep the name then when a >>> support ticket comes in from a user with Cygwin is it yours.. is it >>> the one they downloaded from the main site.. is it a version in >>> between? >> >> You're misunderstanding my daily use of Cygwin. I'm not compiling anything, >> not cygwin-related anyway. >> I'm using it as a bridging gap between sane scripting abilities of dash/make >> and insane requirements of compiling tools such as BRCC. >> And since Vista+ doesn't have support for 16-bit subsystem, I need XP VM to >> compile my projects. >> > > Ah ok. If it is just a one man operation then an archive of the trees > at a certain time are all that is needed. If you have a large Windows > XP environment you are rolling out something to then you need to make > sure you can compile and deal with the 'forked' version... which I am > guessing that some segment of XP admins have to do. >
Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I just want to make sure I can reinstall Cygwin packages if needed. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
