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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.

There is also the "cygwin time machine" available
http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwintimemachine

-- Erik

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