nuke cygwin legacy?

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Sat Feb 9 05:03:00 GMT 2013


On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 12:00:46AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 06:48:12PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>>On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 12:41:36 -0500
>>> Subject: nuke cygwin legacy?
>>
>>Greetings, All,
>>
>>> Corinna +1'ed my suggestion that it was time to remove cygwin 1.5
>>> support so I'm wondering if anyone has any objections to removing
>>> 1.5 from cygwin.com.
>>> 
>>> I was going to suggest this a few months ago and mention that the Cygwin
>>> Time Machine was an alternative but it looks like that service is no
>>> longer available.
>>
>>That is incorrect.  The Cygwin Time Machine is still up and actively 
>>collecting updates.  I have been having internet connectivity issues as of 
>>late, but those (hopefully) should have (mostly) been resolved.
>>If you can't get to the Time Machine, wait a few minutes and try again.
>
>Thanks for the update.  I'd tried a few times in the last month and was
>never able to get through.  It works now though, as you say.

Btw, if you want to send out an announcement about The Cygwin Time
Machine to cygwin-announce, that would be fine with me.

cgf



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