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Re: [PATCH] setup: remove legacy code


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?

cgf


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