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EOL for Windows 95/98/Me
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:59:26 +0200
- Subject: EOL for Windows 95/98/Me
Now that Microsoft has finally dropped support for Windows 98 and Me,
we're going to drop 9x support as well.
What we're planning to do is this:
The complete net distribution gets copied to a new place. This new
place is the distro kept for people running 9x. There is no further
development in this distribution. Maintainers may decide whether or not
they apply fixes to the packages in the 9x distro, or keep it up to date
at all.
The "normal" net distribution will continue to be the normal distro. It
might work on 9x, but there's no guarantee at all that it will continue
to do so.
The setup tool (hello setup developers?) should either be split into two
versions, one for 9x, one for NT. Or the setup tool should choose the
download path depending on the OS it's running on. Or something
completely different.
Comments? Ideas?
Corinna
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