Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/13/2016 05:41 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > > Yes, I have, two of them fail entirely to start, and the third starts, > but crashes quickly. As each also has its own hardware drivers, I > suspect it would be harder getting it to work in Wine than writing > fresh. They are currenty in VMware

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-13 Thread Erik Soderquist
n On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Tony Kelman wrote: > Erik Soderquist writes: > >> currently I'm studying programming myself now with a direct goal of >> being able to write a Linux compatible replacement so I can dump my >> own amber-coated XP > > Have you tried running the Windows binaries un

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-13 Thread Tony Kelman
Erik Soderquist gmail.com> writes: > currently I'm studying programming myself now with a direct goal of > being able to write a Linux compatible replacement so I can dump my > own amber-coated XP Have you tried running the Windows binaries under Wine? It's worth a shot. Wine has some hefty depe

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 12 16:58, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > The last time this topic came up, I came away with the impression that the > > only reason Cygwin hasn’t jettisoned XP support yet is that it’s more work > > than ignoring that old code. > > I have

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-12 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Feb 12, 2016, at 2:58 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> >>> I hope not. Extended support ended nearly two years ago. >> >> ...why waste the resources on newer (and more bloated) pack

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-12 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 12, 2016, at 2:58 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Warren Young wrote: > >> I hope not. Extended support ended nearly two years ago. > > ...why waste the resources on newer (and more bloated) packages? The same blade cuts both ways. The small and shrinki

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-12 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Warren Young wrote: > I hope not. Extended support ended nearly two years ago. That’s 22 months > of unfixed security problems, bugs, and regressions with respect to the state > of the world. (By the latter, I mean things like outdated time zone rules.) When

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-12 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 11, 2016, at 11:10 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > > A git tag would be helpful for LAST-XP supported version. Easy to do, but I wonder how many people would use it? I doubt there’s a lot of overlap between the group of people unwilling to upgrade their XP boxes and the group willing to instal

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-11 Thread cyg Simple
On 2/10/2016 12:23 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2016-02-10 11:13, LMH wrote: >> Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>> On 2016-02-09 19:37, Jonathan Brenster wrote: I saw a post a number of months back indicating that XP support would start to phase out in Dec '15. Is there a last vers

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-02-10 11:13, LMH wrote: Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2016-02-09 19:37, Jonathan Brenster wrote: I saw a post a number of months back indicating that XP support would start to phase out in Dec '15. Is there a last version or intended last version that still officially supports it? Suppo

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-10 Thread LMH
Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2016-02-09 19:37, Jonathan Brenster wrote: >> I saw a post a number of months back indicating that XP support would >> start to phase out in Dec '15. >> >> Is there a last version or intended last version that still officially >> supports it? > > Support for XP has yet

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jonathan Brenster! > I saw a post a number of months back indicating that XP support would > start to phase out in Dec '15. > Is there a last version or intended last version that still officially > supports it? > I understand XP is well past EOL, just looking for the info. There was

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-09 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-02-09 19:37, Jonathan Brenster wrote: I saw a post a number of months back indicating that XP support would start to phase out in Dec '15. Is there a last version or intended last version that still officially supports it? Support for XP has yet to be removed but that is subject to cha

Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-09 Thread Jonathan Brenster
Hi, I saw a post a number of months back indicating that XP support would start to phase out in Dec '15. Is there a last version or intended last version that still officially supports it? I understand XP is well past EOL, just looking for the info. Thanks -- Problem reports: http://cygw