On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 09:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 13 15:13, Jon Turney wrote: > > Show a MessageBox warning if we are running on a Windows version which > > we have deprecated Cygwin support for: > > > > - Windows 6.0 (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008) > > - 32-bit Windows > > > > This warning can be disabled with '--allow-unsupported-windows'. > > --- > > > > Notes: > > Not sure if this is needed, or maybe this is just annoying to the ~3% of > > users who are running effected OSes. But maybe we want to annoy them > > into doing something about it? > > Question is, how often should setup show this message? Every time might > really be a bit annoying. Some kind of "I saw it, now leave me alone, > at least for a while" kind of function would be great.
Eh. The installer tries to add icons to my desktop every time I run it unless I provide a command-line argument every time. This behaviour seems no more or less annoying to me, and I think having users see that warning is much more important than adding a desktop icon.