On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Juan Miguel Navarro MartÃnez wrote: > No software version can live forever, ... <snip>
Personally, I have to disagree with this statement, or at least offer an amendment... I have some things still running in DOS 5 in a virtual machine because that is the most effective environment to run them in, and I don't expect any future OS to change that. Does this mean I have these accessible to the outside world? Absolutely not. So while I do see use cases for very long outdated packages, I will also agree these use cases are not mainstream by any means, and if your use case does warrant an old package, appropriate measures to isolate the old packages also need to be taken. That said, I will be making an internal mirror for my XP stations before XP support is dropped as well. I can certainly understand not maintaining backward compatibility for an old system that should no longer be placed in a position where it can be attacked. -- Erik -- 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
