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> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:15 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: End of support for 9x > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 25 08:34, Terry Dabbs wrote: > >>It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on > Windows 93 and > >>95. This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported > >>software', but where a vendor has written applications I must > >>interface with that were written for those platforms and > they will not > >>upgrade, for reasons of their own. I hope there will be > some spot out > >>there that will keep the last compatible versions available. > > > >It's fixed decided that we keep the entire 1.5.25 based net distro > >around for those user who are still running Cygwin on Windows 9x or > >users having very specific needs. > > I don't remember deciding this. I have very mixed feelings > about keeping two different versions around. It adds > overhead to sourceware.org (and to me) and it is going to > generate confusion here. > > Maybe we should find an off-site person to host the > unchanging 1.5.25 release if people really want to use it. > The one thing that is missing amongst all of the "It's a > pity" talk is someone actually volunteering to do something to help. > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
