Re: Cygwin1.

DLL soon to be Windows

Vista only
 From: "Roberto Veiga" <roberto dot sapiens at gmail dot com>
 To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
 Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:32:03 +0200
 Subject: Re: Cygwin1.DLL soon to be Windows Vista only
 References: <20070401045338.GA23909@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>

You are joking, aren't you?

[]s,

Roberto

2007/4/1, Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>:

After some intense discussion with Corinna, we've decided that we will
soon be removing all support for any version of Windows other than
Windows Vista 64.

I know that Corinna considers Vista to be the best in a long line of

Windows operating systems and I'm sure I'll agree as soon as I finally
get Vista installed.

So, in addition to dropping legacy support for the Windows 9x/Me

versions, we'll soon be dropping support for all versions of Windows
NT, Windows XP, and Windows 2003. In fact, we'll be adding checks for
all of those OSes so that no one will unintentionally try to run Cygwin
on anything but Vista. Attempts to run Cygwin on unapproved systems
will result in a message followed, five seconds later, by a reboot of
the system. Successive attempts to run Cygwin will probably result in
something more severe than a reboot. We haven't figured out exactly
what that will be. I think it would be sort of funny to wipe out the
partition and install linux but that would bloat the size of the DLL by
more than 20%.

Anyway, the last version of Cygwin with support for non-legacy versions
of Windows will be 1.5.22.

We plan on adding improvements to Cygwin at a pretty rapid clip once we've

stabilized on Windows Vista. Contemplated changes are:

1) A gcc-free version of Cygwin which does not require any compilers (this
was at the request of Microsoft and it should be doable).

2) Improvements to d2u to finally squash that CRLF problem:

d2u --wholedisk --permanent

This command will wipe out every \r on your disk and mark the disk so
that it is subsequently impossible to have files with the \r character
in them.