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Subject: Re: Question about XP support
From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist AT gmail DOT com>
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On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I thought that support for Windows XP had been removed from Cygwin.
> Yet the Cygwin home page says:
>
>     https://cygwin.com/
>
>     "The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially
> released x86 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows, starting with
> Windows XP SP3."

There has been notice that XP support will be dropped at some point in
the future, but as far as I know, that point has not been reached.

As I understood the conversation, XP support will be dropped when the
coding work for a new fix/feature/package is more than the coding work
to simply drop XP support.

-- Erik

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