Re: Cygwin x86 end-of-life

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 11.11.2022 um 17:16 schrieb Jon Turney:
> 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.
Although expected for a while, the exact date is now a very short-time 
announcement. Can we have a moratorium for a short while?

>
> When package updates resume (I don't have an ETA, but I expect it will 
> take a few days to attend to all the details), attempts to upload x86 
> packages will be rejected with an error.
>
>> (Instructions on the special steps needed to install from that 
>> archive will be forthcoming, once we've worked out what they are.)
>>
>> If you're using x86 Cygwin under WOW64 on a 64-bit Windows OS, please 
>> strongly consider moving to an x86_64 Cygwin installation.
>>
>> (If you have ARM hardware, we believe that x86_64 Cygwin works 
>> correctly using the x86_64 emulation in Windows 11)
>>
>> If you're one of the tiny percentage of Cygwin users using x86 Cygwin 
>> on a real x86 Windows OS, don't panic! The current installation will 
>> continue to run on your system. You just won't get any more updates.
>