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Re: Cygwin 1.7


Hi Stephen,
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Agyeman, Stephen O DLA CTR
Information Operations <Stephen.Agyeman.ctr@dla.mil> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I hope all is well with you.  May you please send me the software for Cygwin 1.7 and or send me the link to download it as I do not see in on Cygwin's main site anymore.  Thanks much in advance.
[...]

Cygwin is both a DLL (versioned like "1.7") and a distribution of
packages, which each have their own versions.

And Cygwin, like some Linux distros, is effectively "rolling release."

If you wish to download the old DLL + the old packages, you can obtain
them both with the "Cygwin time machine."
http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/#cygwintimemachine

Note that you cannot install current packages on top of the 1.7 DLL.
They will fail to launch. The DLL must be from the same timeframe, or
newer, than the packages.

However, many packages from the 1.7 era will have unpatched vulnerabilities.

-Mike

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