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Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support
[XEmacs for 64-bit?]
To: Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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From: Dan Harkless via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Oops, sorry for the direct email.  Didn't realize you now have to use 
the "Reply List" button that pops into existence rather than the normal 
Reply button.  I re-sent to the list.

- Dan Harkless


On 10/27/2021 3:35 PM, Dan Harkless wrote:
> On 10/26/2021 1:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin 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.
> Except for my 32-bit Windows 7 (upgraded to 8.1) netbook, the only 
> reason I still install Cygwin32 in parallel with Cygwin64 is so I can 
> install the XEmacs packages.  Anyone know more about the difficulty in 
> getting those packages to work on 64-bit?  XEmacs from EPEL works fine 
> on 64-bit Linux, FWIW.
>
> From past attempts, I know it would take far too much time (and Elisp 
> programming) to get GNU Emacs up to the usability level that I've had 
> XEmacs at since the '90s.
>
> (w3m-img is another package only available on Cygwin32 that I install, 
> but I don't use it and am not concerned about that one.)
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Harkless


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