Re: Cygwin x86 end-of-life

[Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@epa.gov>]

> 
> 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?

Agree. Maybe I should have known from previous announcements that the forever
cutoff date was today, but I didn't. I'm now in the process of updating a couple
of packages that need it, so the i686 archive will reflect the latest available
versions. It would be helpful if we had a couple more days to update before the
portcullis comes down.

Thanks, Andrew