RE: Cygwin x86 end-of-life

["Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@pdinc.us>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Inglis
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2022 3:17 PM
> 
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:25:18 +0000, Jon Turney wrote:> On 11/11/2022 16:16, Jon
> Turney wrote:
> >> On 11/11/2022 15:50, Jon Turney wrote:
> >>> As has previously been announced, Cygwin is dropping support for x86
> >>> Windows. Cygwin 3.3.6 is the final version supporting x86 (32-bit)
> >>> Windows, and the forthcoming Cygwin 3.4 will be released for x86_64 only.
> >>>
> >>> Concurrent with that, updates to x86 packages will be stopped, and the
> >>> Cygwin x86 package repository will be archived.
> 
> >> I plan to pause package uploads this coming Monday (2022-11-14), before
> >> starting the re-organization of the package repository to make this
> >> archive.
> 
> > Since there have been some complaints about short notice, and to give
> > time to work out the issues with gettext/libunistring, I'm going to
> > defer this by one week, until Monday 2022-11-21.
> 
> Thank you very much appreciated, hopefully we can deal with the remaining issues
> quickly.

I do not have an articulate retort to ending support, but all I can say is that I feel there must be a middle ground.

I feel that there could and should be some form of "we don’t support it" but we are not going out of our way to prevent it.

Can I throw resources at a solution? If so what?

Feel free to ignore my grumpy ramblings.

-Jason

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