On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 13:00:43 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. > > Additionally, except for setup.exe, there have been no bug fixes or > security fixes in 1.5 so we're offering buggy, insecure software on our > site.
Which, in and of itself, is reason to drop it. FWIW, I deleted legacy files from Ports a few months ago without complaint. Yaakov
