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Re: nuke cygwin legacy?


Am 06.02.2013 03:21, schrieb Yaakov (Cygwin/X):
On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:56:42 +0100, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
It doesn't matter that it is not secure.
Yes, it does.  IMHO it is irresponsible on our part to distribute
unmaintained or knowingly vulnerable software, and it reflects badly on
the Cygwin project.


Yaakov
Just a proposal (without advocating further) to avoid the problem of providing insecure software for current systems:
What about modifying setup.exe so that 1.5 can be installed *only* on legacy systems?
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Thomas



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