On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 07:57:58PM -0600, Yaakov wrote: >On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 13:00:43 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Because it is taking space on the web site and on sourceware.org and >> there is no good reason for it to be offered anymore. If there are >> virtual machines running ME then, if they haven't installed Cygwin 1.5 >> by now, there is no reason to assume that they will need it. >> >> Additionally, except for setup.exe, there have been no bug fixes or >> security fixes in 1.5 so we're offering buggy, insecure software on our >> site. > >Which, in and of itself, is reason to drop it. FWIW, I deleted legacy >files from Ports a few months ago without complaint.
Also, FWIW, it looks like setup-legacy was downloaded 14 times in the last year. I think that's a pretty good indication that it isn't very popular. cgf