[PATCH] Cygwin: doc: drop mention of 32-bit installer
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Jan 12 19:25:06 GMT 2022
On Jan 12 19:17, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 12/01/2022 18:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jan 12 15:52, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > Drop mention of 32-bit installer, since it's offically discouraged, and
> > > planned to be dropped soon.
> > >
> > > Adjust various references to be something more generic, like 'the Cygwin
> > > Setup program' to accomodate this.
> > > ---
> > > winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml | 12 +++----
> > > winsup/doc/setup-net.xml | 74 ++++++++++++++++------------------------
> > > 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> > > [...]
> > > <para>
> > > -On Windows Vista and later, <command>setup.exe</command> will check by
> > > +On Windows Vista and later, <command>setup</command> will check by
> > ^^^^^
> > This will have to be changed for the master branch to mention W7
> > instead. Vista is a dead stinkin' fish at that time. That reminds me,
> > we have to do this throughout. Do you want to or shall I?
>
> Please go ahead.
>
> In this particular case, the leading clause can simply be dropped, since
> "setup will check by default if it runs with administrative privileges ..."
> describes the behaviour on all supported Windows versions.
Yeah, makes sense.
Corinna
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