Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:36:42 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin without Win32 Message-ID: <20040120013642.GB14040@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <1074544647 DOT 2499 DOT 22 DOT camel AT mentor DOT gurulabs DOT com> <20040119204328 DOT GA19723 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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. cgf -- 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/