On Nov 10 15:19, Andrey Gursky wrote: > > On Nov 10 04:21, Andrey Gursky wrote: > > > On 11/9/2016 7:59 AM, Andrey Gursky wrote: > > > > > P.S. Was it not too early to remove WinXP support? Though it is > > > > > officially not supported anymore, there are still PCs running WinXP > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > This has been answered. The problem with supporting XP into infinitude > > > > is that every application would need to agree to do the same. > > > > [...] > > > [...] > > Ending XP support was announced last year and only a year later we > > actually dropped it. So we don't support Windows XP anymore, but we > > *would* support Wine. However, the problem here is not on the Cygwin > > side. > > > > It seems Cygwin under Wine was not tested outside of XP compatibility > > mode, or Wine doesn't support certain post-XP functions albeit claiming > > Vista caompatibility. Cygwin doesn't require any functionality which > > isn't available in Vista. > > Corinna, > > sorry, I missed that early announce. Is there any link?
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-08/msg00049.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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