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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:59:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, AC wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:30:27 -0700
> From: AC
> Subject: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and
>     Server 2003 support
> 
> On 2015-08-26 06:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On 26 August 2015 at 07:42, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> Greetings, Stephen John Smoogen!
>>>
>>>>> Anyway, on the topic: All I could ask is to give us a notice when the final
>>>>> build for XP is available, so that we could prepare own mirrors.
>>>
>>>> You will need more than mirrors. You will need to  set up a parallel
>>>> stack of builders and other tools because this will be a fork of
>>>> anything compiled against Cygwin from then on. You will also need to
>>>> look at how you are handling any bugs or problems utilities have in
>>>> rebuilding (but that is a longer term issue). Having had to do this in
>>>> the past, it will be better if you try to call this something
>>>> different. The reason being is that if you keep the name then when a
>>>> support ticket comes in from a user with Cygwin is it yours.. is it
>>>> the one they downloaded from the main site.. is it a version in
>>>> between?
>>>
>>> You're misunderstanding my daily use of Cygwin. I'm not compiling anything,
>>> not cygwin-related anyway.
>>> I'm using it as a bridging gap between sane scripting abilities of dash/make
>>> and insane requirements of compiling tools such as BRCC.
>>> And since Vista+ doesn't have support for 16-bit subsystem, I need XP VM to
>>> compile my projects.
>>>
>>
>> Ah ok. If it is just a one man operation then an archive of the trees
>> at a certain time are all that is needed. If you have a large Windows
>> XP environment you are rolling out something to then you need to make
>> sure you can compile and deal with the 'forked' version... which I am
>> guessing that some segment of XP admins have to do.
>>
>
> Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a
> mirror?  I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I
> just want to make sure I can reinstall Cygwin packages if needed.

There is one other alternative to having your own historical mirror that I 
will plug: the Cygwin Time Machine

It is a constant archive of all versions of Cygwin going back to 2002 
(32-bit) and 2013 (64-bit), added to daily as newer versions of Cygwin 
are released.  Works with the standard Setup install tool.

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