On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 06:52:02PM -0400, Michel LaBarre wrote: Greetings, Michel & Corinna,
> Corinna , thank you for the heads up regarding subsequent updates wrt Window > 7. > > Would it be possible to create a short "how-to" for installing the most > recently "known-to-work-with-Windows-7" version of Cygwin (presuming that > old versions remain accessible indefinitely...). Alternately, how one can > download a repository now that is compatible with Windows 7 and useable for > installing Cygwin in anticipation of the upcoming loss of support. As these milestones occur I will make notes in the Cygwin Time Machine concerning the ending release snapshot and installers, like what I have for the last XP release. Corinna, I presume you will post when these milestones occur so that we have a more exact message in the Cygwin mail archive? > I have old machines that cannot be updated to Windows 10 (hybrid graphics > hardware) that I use for background activities that I may someday need to > rebuild. > > Thank you very much for all your efforts. > > Michel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cygwin [mailto:cygwin-bounces+michel.labarre=rogers....@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin > Sent: October 26, 2021 4:55 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Cc: Corinna Vinschen > Subject: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support > > Hi folks, > > > The upcoming version 3.3.0 is the last version officially supporting > Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. > > The next major release 3.4.0 will be released in 2022 and will be the > last one officially supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 > R2, and Windows Server 2012. > > We're also planning to drop Support for the 32 bit release of Cygwin in > 2022, thus Cygwin 3.4.0 won't come in 32 bit anymore, and the package > maintainers won't have to update 32 bit packages anymore. If you're > still running Cygwin under WOW64, consider to move to 64 bit in the next > couple of months. > > > Corinna > > -- > 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 > > > -- > 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 -- --=> Peter A. Castro Email: doctor at fruitbat dot org / Peter dot Castro at oracle dot com "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- 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
