HA: RE: BIND 9 windows XP builds

[Reindl Harald]

Am 19.04.2017 um 06:52 schrieb i.chudov at volga.ttk.ru:
> Hello all.
> 
> Regarding the "critical mass": I'm the one who downloads BIND from XP box
> and I do it just to set it up on internal Linux machine. The reason to use
> XP as PC OS is company's policy and lack of money after all. :)
> 
> P. S.: I can not imagine any user of BIND to even try to run it from
> Windows machine but I think if it is possible to provide Windows XP builds
> and there are still plenty of BIND users running Windows XP (Even if it is
> botnets. Bontnet is just a piece of software like Windows XP or BIND. Why
> do you want to drop botnet support?) there is a reason to build binaries
> for Windows XP. Still it is all about money. Not everyone are able to pay
> Microsoft for the new OS. And there might be legacy software too. Why do
> users have to update and break everything if it works for them? So, my
> final answer is: "Don't drop the Windows XP binaries if it's technically
> possible to build them."

 > Not everyone are able to pay Microsoft for the new OS.
 > And there might be legacy software too

so your whole OS is legacy, there is running other legacy software - why 
would you then need BIND as the one and only non-legacy software on that 
box?