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Date: | Wed, 27 Oct 2021 23:04:16 +0200 |
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Hi Peter, Am 27.10.2021 um 18:46 schrieb Peter A. Castro: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:37:26AM +0200, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Greetings, Thomas, > >> Am 27.10.2021 um 10:49 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: >>> On Oct 27 09:24, Takashi Yano via Cygwin 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. >>> Well, it's not much effort to support WOW64 if we support 32 bit anyway. >>> The problem is that Cygwin is somehow outgrowing 32 bit systems in terms >>> of the available memory. Also, 32 bit Cygwin is still using a 32 bit >>> time_t, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem >>> >>> Per the download statistics, as far as those statistics are trustable, >>> 32 bit systems are less than 5% of the installed base, with the majority >>> of them being WOW64 installations. Those can move over to 64 bit Cygwin >>> easily. >>> >>> Less than 1% are real 32 bit systems. >> I think roughly 1% is still a community to consider. Working old machines >> shouldn't be trashed just because they are missing a few bits :) >> >>> Dropping 32 bit support will reduce code complexity in Cygwin and it will >>> reduce the workload of the package maintainers. >> Code complexity was also an argument when dropping XP support, but there was >> quite some discussion at its time. >> For `egrep "# *if.*(32|64)"` I'm counting roughly 160 matches in winsup, but >> only in a few files. Is it really necessary? >> >>> Those few still running >>> Cygwin on a real 32 bit system will still have a chance to run Cygwin >>> by utilizing Peter's time machine. >> Peter's time machine is a very appreciable effort. It's a bit fiddly though to figure out how to use it, particularly to identify the "latest XP version". Maybe some explicit howto could be published on the cygwin pages? > Could you please give an example of the "fiddly" bit? I list the URLs > to use with the install and it's clearly labeled "The last version of > Cygwin that supports XP is 2.5.2-1". Or were you, perhaps, refering to > the actual usage of the URL in the Setup program? On http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html, I see a setup link and a repository URL. If I run that setup and enter the URL on the mirror selection page, I get an error popup --------------------------- Cygwin Setup --------------------------- Can't open /software/windows/cygwin32/x86_64/setup.xz.sig for reading: No such file or directory --------------------------- OK --------------------------- So I should have deselected the preselected repository explicitly. If I fix that or click the popup off a few times, there's another popup --------------------------- Cygwin Setup --------------------------- Unable to get http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2016/08/30/104235/x86_64/setup.xz.sig from <http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2016/08/30/104235/> --------------------------- OK --------------------------- repeatedly. The command line you mentioned in the other mail does not seem to work either. The 32-bit version works (from the command line only). Also setup suggests my existing cygwin installation as its installation target which needs to be fixed carefully to avoid destruction... > Another user, Michel, responded that perhaps a more explicit message > with exact steps for install this might be helpful (as the "Dead Simple > Instructions" are generic), but I'm not sure it's really necessary. Is > that, perhaps, what you are refering to in that the instructions aren't > explicit enough? An explicit quote of a safely working command line invocation would certainly help. Best greetings Thomas -- 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
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