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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [ITA] gettext
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 14:25:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c49d742-a938-3480-fefb-65ae6ad6d538@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54bfc4e5-4486-afbd-bffd-0a4ff6074913@SystematicSw.ab.ca>

On 30/07/2021 20:14, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-07-30 12:21, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Brian Inglis writes:
>>> cygwin64-gettext            ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
>>> cygwin32-gettext            ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
>>
>> The cross-compilation toolchains that use these packages are for have
>> bitrotted for so long that I don't think anybody still actually uses
>> them.

per [1], the only use for these was cross-compiling cygwin itself.

[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2016-March/037062.html

> Indeed - agreed - looked at my installs and they are from 2014 Windows 
> manifest 2016 libbfd etc. gcc 6.04. I think I'll remove them all.
> May be time to obsolete the packages?

So, yes, I think these should be removed.

      reply	other threads:[~2021-08-04 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-29 17:50 Brian Inglis
2021-07-29 19:28 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-07-30  0:19   ` Brian Inglis
2021-07-30 18:21 ` Achim Gratz
2021-07-30 19:14   ` Brian Inglis
2021-08-04 13:25     ` Jon Turney [this message]

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