Re: Default mingw _WIN32_WINNT

2020-05-11 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2020-05-11 12:53 pm, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: I would just like to chime in that it would be a crying shame if Cygwin were to ever drop support for Windows 7. There are many people, myself one, who are dead set against Windows 10. "Ever"?!? You do realize that, ESU aside, Windows 7 is out

[ANNOUNCEMENT] graphite2 1.3.14-1

2020-05-11 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * graphite2-1.3.14-1 * libgraphite2_3-1.3.14-1 * libgraphite2-devel-1.3.14-1 Graphite is a package that can be used to create smart fonts capable of displaying writing systems with various complex behaviors. A smart font conta

Re: Very dangerous hacking ? Surprising relationship between cygwin and Microsoft

2020-05-11 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2020-05-11 12:35, David Macek via Cygwin wrote: >> To conclude, Microsoft spy and register all sites you access, cygwin.com >> in particular. I hope only with Edge, but I am not sure of that. > > Unless I missed something in your report, I cannot agree with your > conclusion. *Windows* storing

Re: Very dangerous hacking ? Surprising relationship between cygwin and Microsoft

2020-05-11 Thread David Macek via Cygwin
> To conclude, Microsoft spy and register all sites you access, cygwin.com in > particular. > I hope only with Edge, but I am not sure of that. Unless I missed something in your report, I cannot agree with your conclusion. *Windows* storing something in the registry does not imply *Microsoft* rec

[ANNOUNCEMENT] gd 2.3.0-1

2020-05-11 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * gd-2.3.0-1 * libgd3-2.3.0-1 * libgd-devel-2.3.0-1 GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD is written in C, and wrappers are available for Perl, PHP and other languages. GD cre

Re: Very dangerous hacking ? Surprising relationship between cygwin and Microsoft

2020-05-11 Thread Doug Henderson via Cygwin
On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 10:39, akiki <> wrote: > > Hi, > > On doing an habitual "cygcheck -rs", I was interrogated and ALARMED to see > some register keys speaking cygwin : > > I have never see in cygcheck, such reference to cygwin with chrome, firefox , > opera ... > May be something is done to

Re: Default mingw _WIN32_WINNT

2020-05-11 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 10:55 -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > On 2020-05-05 5:05 am, Rainer Emrich wrote: > > Am 05.05.2020 um 10:54 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > > Therefore it might be a good idea to bump the default for these > > > Cygwin-related headers to at least 0x0600. > > > > > > Setting them

[ANNOUNCEMENT] tzdata 2020a-1

2020-05-11 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * tzdata-2020a-1 The Time Zone Database (often called tz or zoneinfo) contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect

Very dangerous hacking ? Surprising relationship between cygwin and Microsoft

2020-05-11 Thread akiki
Hi, On doing an habitual "cygcheck -rs", I was interrogated and ALARMED to see some register keys speaking cygwin : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\ microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Children\001\Internet Ex

Re: Default mingw _WIN32_WINNT

2020-05-11 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2020-05-05 5:05 am, Rainer Emrich wrote: Hi Corinna, Am 05.05.2020 um 10:54 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: Therefore it might be a good idea to bump the default for these Cygwin-related headers to at least 0x0600. Setting them to 0x0602 sounds like a good idea, but as long as we didn't drop Vi