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From:
Achim Gratz
Date:
December 5, 2015 13:38
Subject:
Re: Cygwin cygdrive prefix
Message ID:
87oae5xbh2.fsf@Rainer.invalid
bulk88 writes:
> 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.

This is getting off-topic, but if you really care about these things you
might want to check out the Cygwin Time Machine.

http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwintimemachine

Of course you'd also need old Windows versions to actually run on.


Regards,
Achim.
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