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Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:07:49 -0400
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> 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.

On the one hand, it's not much more work to build packages for x86.

On the other hand, 32-bit Cygwin will still be available - it just won't be
updated, unless package maintainers want to. It's been many years since
32-bit PCs were sold. I don't know how many 32-bit PCs are still in use and
running Cygwin, but it can't be very many.

Overall, I agree that it's time.


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