On 2020-11-01 08:20, Stephen John Smoogen via Cygwin wrote: > On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 at 04:02, Duncan Roe wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 08:49:23AM +0000, Fergus Daly wrote: >>> With W7 no longer supported, W10-32 supported but no longer provided on >>> new machines (Microsoft states that, "Beginning with Windows 10, version >>> 2004, all new Windows 10 systems will be required to use 64-bit builds >>> and Microsoft will no longer release 32-bit builds for OEM distribution >>> .. the weaker version of Windows 10 has several limitations, like >>> capping out at 3.2GB of RAM and less stringent security measures") and >>> the functionality of Cygwin-32 significantly downplayed on Cygwin's own >>> Home page, that really does leave Cygwin-64 on W10-64 on 64-bit hardware >>> as the sole recommended platform. Yes?
Cygwin64 is the recommended release, there are no recommended platforms, although there are minimum requirements for the code to run, and to build the code: if you can run it under ReactOS on an old Pentium, good on you! ;^> >> No, I run Cygwin64 on Win 7. There is an outstanding W7 update, it appeared >> a few weeks ago, but I'm not taking it. > The question is nuanced around "what is the recommended platform". Now as > individuals we can recommend anything we want if it works for us.. but we > also aren't expecting to answer all of Fergus's questions when he tries to > get Cygwin working on his system. I think in the end, for the project, the > recommendation would be whatever Corinna recommends as she is the primary > author of the code these days and the one who would be fixing problems > found. That has been determined in the past by the need in a new Wdindows release, version, or edition, to use a new API, that may not be avoided or skipped for the oldest versions in a backward-compatible way, as happened when support for new versions had to be added, so XP support had to be dropped. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.] -- 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