[ITA] gettext

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Wed Aug 4 13:25:10 GMT 2021


On 30/07/2021 20:14, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-07-30 12:21, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Brian Inglis writes:
>>> cygwin64-gettext            ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
>>> cygwin32-gettext            ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
>>
>> The cross-compilation toolchains that use these packages are for have
>> bitrotted for so long that I don't think anybody still actually uses
>> them.

per [1], the only use for these was cross-compiling cygwin itself.

[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2016-March/037062.html

> Indeed - agreed - looked at my installs and they are from 2014 Windows 
> manifest 2016 libbfd etc. gcc 6.04. I think I'll remove them all.
> May be time to obsolete the packages?

So, yes, I think these should be removed.


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