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RE: EOL for Windows 95/98/Me
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:05:47 +0100
- Subject: RE: EOL for Windows 95/98/Me
On 24 July 2006 17:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Now that Microsoft has finally dropped support for Windows 98 and Me,
> we're going to drop 9x support as well.
>
> What we're planning to do is this:
>
> The complete net distribution gets copied to a new place. This new
> place is the distro kept for people running 9x. There is no further
> development in this distribution. Maintainers may decide whether or not
> they apply fixes to the packages in the 9x distro, or keep it up to date
> at all.
>
> The "normal" net distribution will continue to be the normal distro. It
> might work on 9x, but there's no guarantee at all that it will continue
> to do so.
>
> The setup tool (hello setup developers?) should either be split into two
> versions, one for 9x, one for NT. Or the setup tool should choose the
> download path depending on the OS it's running on. Or something
> completely different.
>
> Comments? Ideas?
It might also be a reasonable idea to fork a win9x bugfixes branch off
current CVS, if there's the least likelihood that anyone will want to fix the
occasional bug in the 9x version of the dll.
cheers,
DaveK
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