RE: Windows 95 support ?

["Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>]

> From: Max Bowsher
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> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >> From: Corinna Vinschen
> >> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 6:38 AM
> >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> >> Subject: Re: Windows 95 support ?
> >>
> >> On Apr 21 12:59, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > [snip]
> >>> Ok, but the question remains: does cygwin still target windows 95?
> >> Just the setup tool has some problem, apparently.
> >> Cygwin still runs on 95, which will probably change at one point, 
> >> since it's getting incredibly awkward to support it.
> >>
> >>
> >> Corinna
> >>
> > 
> > Perhaps, but as long as the Cygwin DLL etc do support 95, it seems 
> > that Setup should be self contained and not require W95 users (all 
> > dozen of them
> > ;-)) to hunt down DLLs all over the internet.  Perhaps I'll 
> whip up a 
> > regular Setup installer which includes the necessary 
> redistributables.
> 
> Why bother?
> 

Meh, keeps me off the streets. ;-)

> To put this in perspective, this affects only users who are 
> using Windows 95 original edition (*not* any OSR version), 
> *AND* have not installed a non-ancient Internet Explorer version.
> 
> For this tiny minority, is it *really* worth the confusion of 
> a separate  Cygwin setup bundle,

Only if it's confusing, separate, and adds no other value.  Check it out and
see what you think:

http://home.att.net/~g.r.vansickle/cygwin/SetupInstaller/SetupInstaller.exe

Erase "Where do I put this darn setup.exe thing?!!?" off the FAQ! ;-)

> as compared with the 
> alternative of just writing a FAQ entry explaining how to get 
> the necessary prerequisites?
>
> Max.

Well, I could just as easily turn the agument around and ask, "Why bother
writing a FAQ entry that only a tiny minority of the tiny minority it
applies to is going to read?"  But mainly, as I said above, it seems rather
silly to me to have Cygwin operate on systems on which it can't be
installed.  This solves the problem.* 

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
* Assuming Sam or someone else confirms that it works of course.


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