Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:21:41 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin without Win32 Message-ID: <20040120042141.GA35883205@hpn5170x> Mail-Followup-To: "Pierre A. Humblet" , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1074544647.2499.22.camel@mentor.gurulabs.com> <20040119204328.GA19723@redhat.com> <20040120013642.GB14040@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040120013642.GB14040@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:36:42PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:12:25PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>There would certainly be a real detriment in the fact that cygwin > >>would stop working for Windows 95/98/Me. If we could focus just on NT > >>class systems, there is all sorts of improvements that we could make. > >>I don't think that all of the people using those systems would be too > >>happy with us, though, as much as I'd like to ditch them. > > > >Has anybody actually measured how many 9x/Me Cygwin users there are > >compared with NT and greater? > > The fact that Pierre Humblet uses Windows Me is reason enough for me to > keep it around. I wouldn't want to lose his contributions to the > project and, perhaps more importantly, his ability to tolerate me when I > get crabby. Thanks a lot, Chris. But according to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/productinfo/sysreqs/default.asp it won't work on NT4 and Windows XP Home Edition either. That increases the user population. Now that 1.5.6 is out, I was just thinking that I should send you a refreshed patch for "[Patch]: Improving tty_list security (part 1).". Are you ready for that? Pierre -- 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/