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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