[PATCH] setup: port to 64-bit, part 1

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Mar 14 09:59:00 GMT 2013


On Mar 13 19:41, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 04/03/2013 06:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 09:54:58PM -0600, Yaakov wrote:
> >> Based on your recent commit to cygwin-64bit-branch, are we dropping
> >> support for Win2K as well?
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
>   :-(  Gonna have to set up a new dev environment on a new pc....

Yup.  Windows 2000 is not really a useful testbed anymore.  It's missing
a lot of functionality available in later OSes and the workarounds are
(were) annoying.  Ideally your new Windows OS is a 64 bit version... ;)


Corinna

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