nuke cygwin legacy?

[Peter A. Castro]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 12:41:36 -0500
> Subject: nuke cygwin legacy?

Greetings, All,

> Corinna +1'ed my suggestion that it was time to remove cygwin 1.5
> support so I'm wondering if anyone has any objections to removing
> 1.5 from cygwin.com.
> 
> I was going to suggest this a few months ago and mention that the Cygwin
> Time Machine was an alternative but it looks like that service is no
> longer available.

That is incorrect.  The Cygwin Time Machine is still up and actively 
collecting updates.  I have been having internet connectivity issues as of 
late, but those (hopefully) should have (mostly) been resolved.
If you can't get to the Time Machine, wait a few minutes and try again.

> So, as an alternative, we could advertise that the directory is going
> away on the main web page for a month before nuking it.
> 
> cgf

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