> On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:55:01 +0200 > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > We're also planning to drop Support for the 32 bit release of Cygwin in > > 2022, thus Cygwin 3.4.0 won't come in 32 bit anymore, and the package > > maintainers won't have to update 32 bit packages anymore. If you're > > still running Cygwin under WOW64, consider to move to 64 bit in the next > > couple of months. > > I agree with you that 32 bit cygwin under WOW64 is not worth to > support any more. However, 32 bit version of Windows 10 will be > still supported at least until Oct. 2025. Personally, I think it > would not be nice to exclude the supported windows version from > cygwin support.
On the one hand, it's not much more work to build packages for x86. On the other hand, 32-bit Cygwin will still be available - it just won't be updated, unless package maintainers want to. It's been many years since 32-bit PCs were sold. I don't know how many 32-bit PCs are still in use and running Cygwin, but it can't be very many. Overall, I agree that it's time. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
