Re: Wish to give up my Cygwin maintainer position

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:

> Just my 2 cents: we have discovered that windows 98 (and cousins 95
> and ME) is complete and utter crap. It's hard to run anything
> reliably, let alone use it to build things reliably. I recommend to
> get an XP box for this.

Either that, or cross build from Linux, that works equally well.

Although I would say that using an XP box for a sanity test of the
resulting binary is a must (wine still doesn't cut it, I'm sorry to
say).  We don't want to release binaries that do not work on XP.

Jan.

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