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