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bulk88
Date:
December 5, 2015 12:55
Subject:
Re: Cygwin cygdrive prefix
Message ID:
20151205125549.27310.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
Achim Gratz wrote:
> So do you intent to support older Cygwin versions still?  Some of that
> support is there in other places, however I don't know how well it is
> tested and if that still works.  I suspect it has bitrotted…
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
>

Cygwin takes down their old release packages in their repo very quickly. 
Unless you did an install in the past, and got everything you will ever 
need, I dont see a way of installing an "old cygwin". I wind up with 
missing DLL exports trying to use the "current" package of almost 
anything in the cygwin repo with an old cygwin core. So as far as I see 
it, it is impossible to test C code on old cygwins on a new 
machine/fresh install.

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