Cygwin x86 end-of-life

[Brian Inglis]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:25:18 +0000, Jon Turney wrote:> 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.

Thank you very much appreciated, hopefully we can deal with the remaining issues 
quickly.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis			Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte			Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter	not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer	but when there is no more to cut
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