On 25 May 2016 at 06:07, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > On May 24 20:38, Herbert Stocker wrote: >> On 24.05.2016 18:44, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >> > I thought that support for Windows XP had been removed from Cygwin. >> >> No, has not yet been removed. >> And i'm sooo happy about this. > > Uh oh, bad timing... > > The next release 2.5.2 introduces the first non-XP compatible code. > It's in a seldom used corner of the code and it doesn't require > functions unavailable on XP, so it will very likely not break 99% of the > existing applications yet. > > But the next release after will very likely break XP support entirely.
Would this be something to move to 3.x because there seems to be a lot of people who come onto the list a lot. That way they know they can use 2.5.1 and that is the last 'stable' release they need to 'fork' from as say Cygnus-XP1 to keep going? > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- 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
