Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/04/25/00:38:34
> From: Max Bowsher
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> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >> From: Corinna Vinschen
> >> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 6:38 AM
> >> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> >> Subject: Re: Windows 95 support ?
> >>
> >> On Apr 21 12:59, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > [snip]
> >>> Ok, but the question remains: does cygwin still target windows 95?
> >> Just the setup tool has some problem, apparently.
> >> Cygwin still runs on 95, which will probably change at one point,
> >> since it's getting incredibly awkward to support it.
> >>
> >>
> >> Corinna
> >>
> >
> > Perhaps, but as long as the Cygwin DLL etc do support 95, it seems
> > that Setup should be self contained and not require W95 users (all
> > dozen of them
> > ;-)) to hunt down DLLs all over the internet. Perhaps I'll
> whip up a
> > regular Setup installer which includes the necessary
> redistributables.
>
> Why bother?
>
Meh, keeps me off the streets. ;-)
> To put this in perspective, this affects only users who are
> using Windows 95 original edition (*not* any OSR version),
> *AND* have not installed a non-ancient Internet Explorer version.
>
> For this tiny minority, is it *really* worth the confusion of
> a separate Cygwin setup bundle,
Only if it's confusing, separate, and adds no other value. Check it out and
see what you think:
http://home.att.net/~g.r.vansickle/cygwin/SetupInstaller/SetupInstaller.exe
Erase "Where do I put this darn setup.exe thing?!!?" off the FAQ! ;-)
> as compared with the
> alternative of just writing a FAQ entry explaining how to get
> the necessary prerequisites?
>
> Max.
Well, I could just as easily turn the agument around and ask, "Why bother
writing a FAQ entry that only a tiny minority of the tiny minority it
applies to is going to read?" But mainly, as I said above, it seems rather
silly to me to have Cygwin operate on systems on which it can't be
installed. This solves the problem.*
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
* Assuming Sam or someone else confirms that it works of course.
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