"Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" wrote: > I noted the following in <[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.25-11> > - Allow cygcheck to run on Windows 9x again. > Does this mean that cygwin still works on win9x?
Cygwin 1.7.x will not support 9x/ME. This is what is currently in CVS HEAD, and the code there already for some time has a number of features and changes that won't work with 9x/ME as there is lots of major development going on. Cygwin 1.5.x is intended to always remain compatible, and that is why it is maintained on a separate branch. In the case of cygcheck, a patch from HEAD was accidently backported to the 1.5 branch from HEAD without anyone realizing that it caused caused 1.5 cygcheck to not function on 9x/ME. When we realized this we fixed the incompatibility so that cygcheck (both on the branch and HEAD) is again able to run again on non-NT systems. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
