On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Helmut Karlowski <helmut.karlow...@ish.de> wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen > Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:32:14 +0200 > --------------------------------------------------- > > > Now that Windows 2003 is finally out of long term support, and given > > that XP's much-too-long-term support ended 2014, I'll drop support for > > XP and Server 2003 from Cygwin End of 2015. [...] > > And during 2016 I will also slowly remove all the workarounds and > > kludges necessary to keep these zombies running, thus simplifing the > > codebase. > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is > on the way. > > -Helmut > Thank you for continuing to support them for so long. Jon Turney and I were discussing that XWin still has code paths for Windows 2000. It's not that XWin checks the Windows version; it checks if a Windows OS feature is available, and that feature was implemented in XP/2003. Needless to say, those XWin code paths should be cleaned up. I don't want to hijack this email thread though. -Mike (I tried to send this email 4 days ago from my Android phone's GMail app, but the app tried to send some weird combination of plaintext + HTML. Thus sourceware rejected it for containing HTML. So I am resending this email from Thunderbird, and CC'ing Jon this time.)
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