X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:55:18 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: End of support for 9x Message-ID: <20080825155518.GE29104@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <015801c90686$08c19b20$67c864c0@andrew> <14CEE0B69DBDFC41A192613D8B4098CA08E27D8E@XCH-CORP.staktek.com> <20080825135604.GB29104@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080825141525.GC24477@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20080825153705.GC29104@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080825153705.GC29104@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Aug 25 17:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 25 10:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >It's fixed decided that we keep the entire 1.5.25 based net distro > > >around for those user who are still running Cygwin on Windows 9x or > > >users having very specific needs. > > > > I don't remember deciding this. I have very mixed feelings about > > keeping two different versions around. It adds overhead to > > sourceware.org (and to me) and it is going to generate confusion here. > > It has been discussed and decided on cygwin-developers in this thread > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-02/msg00000.html > [...] > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2007-02/msg00054.html ff. > > I don't see the overhead for sourceware and you given that sourceware > has enough disk space and nothing new will occur in the 1.5.25 based > distro. Setup.exe will choose the distro based on the OS of the client > machine and setup.ini for the 1.5.25 distro does not have to be > regenerated anymore. As usual, we will have to live with a certain > amount of confusion anyway. Don't get me wrong, probably it isn't such a bad idea to put the 1.5.25 distro to an external site at one point. But I think we should keep the 1.5.25 distro on sourceware at least for some time until we're confident that 1.7.x is so stable that nobody actually needs a fallback. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/