isn't or hasn't 32 bit support going or gone away?

isn't or hasn't 32 bit support going or gone away?

[L. A. Walsh]

I thought I remember an announcement about 32-bit support
going away in cygwin and that cygwin would only be built for
64-bit?  Am I imagining this or was this reversed?

Thanks...


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Re: isn't or hasn't 32 bit support going or gone away?

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Nov  9 13:53, L. A. Walsh wrote:
> I thought I remember an announcement about 32-bit support
> going away in cygwin and that cygwin would only be built for
> 64-bit?  Am I imagining this or was this reversed?

We only (kind of) joked about it.


Corinna

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Re: isn't or hasn't 32 bit support going or gone away?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2016-11-10 02:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov  9 13:53, L. A. Walsh wrote:
>> I thought I remember an announcement about 32-bit support
>> going away in cygwin and that cygwin would only be built for
>> 64-bit?  Am I imagining this or was this reversed?
>
> We only (kind of) joked about it.

MS will release that fix in an upcoming Anniversary Update, if
the 32 bit MS Office Education and Enterprise licence revenue
ever dwindles, and Insider devs' systems tell MS they don't do
32 bit builds.

Cygwin won't have to worry about it, as they won't have a WoW
to work on any more ;^>

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Re: isn't or hasn't 32 bit support going or gone away?

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Nov 10 02:55, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2016-11-10 02:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Nov  9 13:53, L. A. Walsh wrote:
> > > I thought I remember an announcement about 32-bit support
> > > going away in cygwin and that cygwin would only be built for
> > > 64-bit?  Am I imagining this or was this reversed?
> > 
> > We only (kind of) joked about it.
> 
> MS will release that fix in an upcoming Anniversary Update, if
> the 32 bit MS Office Education and Enterprise licence revenue
> ever dwindles, and Insider devs' systems tell MS they don't do
> 32 bit builds.

Good thing MS doesn't collect user data...

> Cygwin won't have to worry about it, as they won't have a WoW
> to work on any more ;^>

I heard there are still lots of real 32 bit Vista/W7/W8.1/W10 systems
running, but I wonder what's the point.  I won't actively pursue
dropping 32 bit, albeit getting rid of 32 bit would be a bit of a relief
in terms of ugly `#ifdef' handling in the code.


Corinna

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