On Dec 8 14:47, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: > > for 3.5 (late 2023) we announced the deprecation of Windows 7 and 8 > > since the first 3.3.0 release in October 2021. > > I saw that. It did not look alarming. It basically was like "you'll be on > your own". > > > Supporting older OSes requires to keep workarounds in the code and > > Understood. But you did not answer my question: > > > Are you saying that W7 and W8 would be actively rejected? > > and I meant by Cygwin?
Not "rejected" as such. It just won't run correctly anymore on W7/8, because - the special treatment required for those OSes isn't in the DLL anymore, and - the DLL uses functions not available on these OSes. Corinna -- 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
