Oops, forgot to send to list. On Wed, 27 Oct 2021, Takashi Yano wrote:
> 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. Please also note that Windows on ARM64 only just got the ability to run x86_64 binaries in Windows 11. Previously the only option was 32-bit x86, as there is no native ARM port of Cygwin. I don't know about Cygwin directly, but I know there are users of Git for Windows on ARM. I think a more gradual sunsetting of 32-bit might be a resonable compromise, based on the original wording: > 11:26 <corinna> starting with 3.4.0, maintainers are not obliged to > release packages in 32 bit so as of 3.4.0 some packages that are problematic on 32 bit may stop providing 32-bit versions. But not being obliged to release packages is a whole different thing than having the core code that allows *any* package to run being ripped out in that version. -- 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
