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Re: [PATCH] setup: remove legacy code


On Mar  4 11:12, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 04:39:45PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Mar  4 10:32, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:45:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >On Mar  4 05:19, Yaakov wrote:
> >> >> The attached patch removes all is_legacy and !IsWindowsNT() codepaths,
> >> >> as well as one part specific to Win2K.
> >> >> 
> >> >> 2013-03-04  Yaakov Selkowitz  <yselkowitz@...>
> >> >> 
> >> >> 	Throughout, drop support for Cygwin 1.5 and Windows pre-XP.
> >> >> [...]
> >> >
> >> >I'm AFK for a while so I'll review that later today.  But please keep
> >> >the W2K-specific part for now.  1.7.18 will still support Windows 2000
> >> >so setup should do that as well.
> >> 
> >> Sorry for jumping the gun on this.  Why not just remove W2K support in
> >> 1.7.18?  That would be one less difference with the 64-bit branch.  When
> >> it gets merged into the trunk.
> >
> >Well, the reason was that I thought we should first advertise the fact
> >when releasing 1.7.18, along the lines of "this is the last release
> >which supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP without Service Pack 3".
> 
> Wouldn't sending out an announcement to cygwin-announce now saying that
> 1.7.18 won't be supporting these have roughly the same effect?

Yes.  Are you going to port the W2K changes from the 64 bit branch into
HEAD?


Corinna

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