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Re: EOL for Windows 95/98/Me


On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:53:13AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Would anybody consider modifying  setup to refuse (or warn against) 
>downloading an incompatible cygwin.dll on WinX machines?

I think that's a great idea.  I think it is becoming obvious that
setup.exe has to be a little more proactive in discouraging people from
doing things where their exuberance about updating overweighs the
ignorance about what is going on.

cgf


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