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Re: Windows XP Support
- From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>
- To: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist at gmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:43:40 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Windows XP Support
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On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Erik Soderquist wrote:
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:26:39 -0500
From: Erik Soderquist
Subject: Re: Windows XP Support
Greetings, Erik,
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:59 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
Arguments like this is the reason I had to spend years searching through
COBOL code for 2 digit years. Old habits seem hard to die. Either
upgrade or forever pay the penalty yourself to keep the old code running.
Actually I agree wholeheartedly, which is why I I'll make my own
frozen mirror, and deal with whatever happens after that myself.
Since these environments are frozen and isolated, I have not had any
problems. This is also something I only do for my own personal
environments; I won't consider it for public production.
I believe Corinna mentioned (and I will re-interate here) that the
"Cygwin Time Machine" is at your service. It contains every(*) snapshot
(circa) release of Cygwin, should you happen to need something from the
past. I don't tend to advertise this much, but it is publicly available. :)
(*) well, as far back as v1.3.12-4 (2002/08/13/043102)
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