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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:43:25 +0100
From: Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to get older version of cygwin (need to install perl 5.8 -   	not 5.10)
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Rance Hall <ranceh@gmail.com> was heard to say:

> this is the old cygwin 1.5 setup still active but unsupported.  It may
> contain the perl version you want.
>
> No promised, I don't have 1.5 installed anymore, and dont have the
> time to look in the archive for you, but thats where I'd start.

I still have a 1.5 installation around, but:

Administrator@pc51997 ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 pc51997 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin

Administrator@pc51997 ~
$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int
(with 6 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

so you'd probably have to go back even further. In any case, relying  
on an outdated piece of software is probably not a good idea anyway,  
and it'll bite you sooner or later.

regards,
Markus


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