On 27/01/2021 19:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> However, the primary motivation for my post was, (in the section which >> you have elided), to point out that WinXP is long past end-of-life, and >> its WININET.DLL may no longer be fit for purpose. While we would like >> to continue to offer support for such moribund Windows versions, it is >> becoming ever more difficult to do so. The mingw-get dependency on >> WININET.DLL is a case in point — unless someone volunteers to develop an >> alternative internet interface, which can circumvent this dependency, it >> looks as if mingw-get will not be fully supported on WinXP, (and since >> Vista and Win7 have now also passed end-of-life, it is likely that, in >> time, we may be forced to abandon support for them too). > > I hope this doesn't mean the MinGW runtime will drop support for XP > and older systems. No, it doesn't. > Because that continued support is one reason I stick with MinGW: > MinGW64 and MSYS2 have tossed XP long ago, and will probably toss > Vista and Windows 7 soon. I am committed to offering continuing support, all the way back to Windows 95, and to WinNT4, (or even to WinNT 3.x), to the maximum extent which is practicable, and for as long as remains practicably possible. However, I cannot do it all on my own, (and no one else seems to be contributing ATM). Right now, the download capability of mingw-get, on WinXP and earlier, appears to be a casualty of end-of-life termination of support from Microsoft, (since WININET.DLL on XP no longer appears to be compatible with the contemporary internet), coupled with the apathy of the MinGW User Community at large, with regard to contributions of solutions to such problems. This is primarily a call to action from you, the user community at large; if you don't want legacy support to die out, we need your help to maintain it. -- Regards, Keith. Public key available from keys.gnupg.net Key fingerprint: C19E C018 1547 DE50 E1D4 8F53 C0AD 36C6 347E 5A3F -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_signature Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 840 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/archives/mingw-users/attachments/20210127/1a45214c/attachment.sig>
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