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Re: Dropping official 9x support


On Jul 12 09:49, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > Somebody (as in "somebody else", not cgf or me) will look into any
> > upcoming 9x problems and will try to fix them.  cgf and me will not
> > grant any concessions to 9x when implementing new code, we will not make
> > any tests on 9x and we will not at all try to find the reason why the
> > code doesn't work on it.  Maybe for lots of money, but not just so.
> > 
> > Any volunteer or anybody with a better idea?  If not, 1.5.21 will be
> > the last release which is supposed to work on 9x.  Serves it right.
> 
> So in essence this boils down to "it should probably continue to work OK
> (in the short term at least) but if a change breaks it we won't fix it
> unless someone debugs and submits a patch that passes muster"?  That's
> certainly more than fine by me, I just hope you have your asbestos suits
> prepared for the deluge of "me have 486 run windows 95, me want cygwin".

There's always b20.


Corinna

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