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Re: End of support for 9x
On Aug 25 17:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 25 10:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >It's fixed decided that we keep the entire 1.5.25 based net distro
> > >around for those user who are still running Cygwin on Windows 9x or
> > >users having very specific needs.
> >
> > I don't remember deciding this. I have very mixed feelings about
> > keeping two different versions around. It adds overhead to
> > sourceware.org (and to me) and it is going to generate confusion here.
>
> It has been discussed and decided on cygwin-developers in this thread
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-02/msg00000.html
> [...]
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-02/msg00054.html ff.
>
> I don't see the overhead for sourceware and you given that sourceware
> has enough disk space and nothing new will occur in the 1.5.25 based
> distro. Setup.exe will choose the distro based on the OS of the client
> machine and setup.ini for the 1.5.25 distro does not have to be
> regenerated anymore. As usual, we will have to live with a certain
> amount of confusion anyway.
Don't get me wrong, probably it isn't such a bad idea to put the 1.5.25
distro to an external site at one point. But I think we should keep the
1.5.25 distro on sourceware at least for some time until we're confident
that 1.7.x is so stable that nobody actually needs a fallback.
Corinna
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