On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 06:49:25PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
Am 05.02.2013 18:41, schrieb Christopher Faylor:
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.
So, as an alternative, we could advertise that the directory is going
away on the main web page for a month before nuking it.
I had thought that support had stopped anyway, just keeping the files
available.
The Cygwin 1.5 support was for setup.exe. We could just stop releasing
new versions of setup.exe for 1.5 but that isn't really completely
viable since we occasionally have to fix security violations. Maintaining
legacy support in the current setup sources is a pain so we should get
rid of it.
I used to run an old laptop with Windows ME until recently and maybe
there's an ME or Windows 2000 surviving in some virtual machine...
For owners of old hardware, there is also some Linux installations still
available that fit into something like 20MB, so why not keep cygwin for
download?
Because it is taking space on the web site and on sourceware.org and
there is no good reason for it to be offered anymore. If there are
virtual machines running ME then, if they haven't installed Cygwin 1.5
by now, there is no reason to assume that they will need it.