> WinXP is not supported. Complain as you wish, write as long a posts as you were, it won't change. > If you need old, outdated and unsupported OS, go into old, outdated and unsupported Cygwin Time Machine.
Hang on, this is just a bit dismissive. Years ago the Cygwin nobility gave us all loads of warning of the demise of v.1.5 (the last installation that could be used on W95/98); they took fantastic trouble over supplying - and deploying to mirrors - the last relevant sources under release-legacy/ with an associated setup-legacy.ini AND an associated setup-legacy.exe to set the whole thing up. And, finally, seven or more years on, this version is still available: see, for example, http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/windows/cygwin/. No such efforts with the last available XP version. Come on, the Time Machine is really hard to navigate. It would have been really helpful to do for XP exactly what was done for 95/98: petrify the last relevant sources along with .ini and .exe, re-label conveniently and obviously, and upload to mirrors. Could this not still be done? Sure, continuing usage of XP carries its own risks, but that's a quite different issue. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
