Cygwin x86 end-of-life

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Nov 14 16:25:18 GMT 2022


On 11/11/2022 16:16, Jon Turney wrote:
> 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.

Since there have been some complaints about short notice, and to give 
time to work out the issues with gettext/libunistring, I'm going to 
defer this by one week, until Monday 2022-11-21.



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