From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 266B83858C62 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:24:43 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 266B83858C62 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=fail (p=reject dis=none) header.from=epa.gov Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=m.gmane-mx.org Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oubKC-0001yQ-BN for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:24:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com From: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: Cygwin x86 end-of-life Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 10:24:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <13518d55-4b3c-cefd-166d-d41ec7f1a70d@dronecode.org.uk> <13518d55-4b3c-cefd-166d-d41ec7f1a70d-GrJqePx9RPPAJUdA+FbntA@public.gmane.org> <72f286a1-7bea-d3ca-fbef-de55c15d9e28@towo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 X-Archive: encrypt X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3032.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: > > 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