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Re: Latest "setup-x86(_64)?\.exe" version supporting WinXP
- From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>
- To: Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus at gmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 12:38:58 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Latest "setup-x86(_64)?\.exe" version supporting WinXP
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On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Sophoklis Goumas wrote:
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 14:02:44 +0300
From: Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Latest "setup-x86(_64)?\.exe" version supporting WinXP
Hello.
Greetings, Sophoklis,
I'm seeing some contradicting clues from cygwin.com and
fruitbat.org's Cygwin Time Machine [1] as to which
is the latest version of "setup-x86(_64)?\.exe" with WinXP "support".
Are you asking about the ability to run Setup on XP or a version of Setup
that can install the last release of Cygwin to support XP?
Strictly speeking, the gating factor is Cygwin itself. V2.5.2-1 was the
last release with formal support for XP, I believe (someone, likely
Corinna, will correct me if I'm wrong :-).
The version of Setup used with that release, is 2.874. But, that version
spans Cygwin 2.5.1-1 through 2.6.0-1. Presumable that means it runs on XP
just fine, even if Cygwin 2.6.0 doesn't.
The latest version of Setup is 2.876 (as of this writing). I have no idea
if it can be run on XP or not though I suspect it can. It seems unlikely
that Setup would take advantage of a Windows native service that's
unavailable in XP (though I could be wrong). Perhaps the owners
of Setup can comment?
Something like:
The previous Cygwin version 2.5.2 was the last version supporting Windows XP and Server 2003.
< The last version of Setup to support XP is 2.874.
The SHA1SUMs of the files that come from fruitbat.org are:
4a01cccf0d6036b1bbca3bbaf13a97a97ca73918 setup-x86_64-2.874.exe
e8778fbd16f6d95b7abb0c93d31e8abb4d24d943 setup-x86-2.874.exe
I'm sure someone who has a separate copy of these will chime in. Since I
speak for the Time Machine... well... those are correct checksums to me!
:-D
So, would, please, confirm that the version offered from fruitbat.org
is the last that includes WinXP "support"?
Would you also, please, confirm the validity of those files?
I can only speak for the Time Machine, but I can verify that I pulled
those (really all) versions of Setup at the time they were available and
are "valid" as presented on the Time Machine. I pull directly from
cygwin.com each day and check to see if it's a new version or not.
Corinna? Does cygwin.com keep copies of the older setup versions? Or am
I the only one?
Thanks in advance,
Sophoklis
[1] http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html
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