X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org 61DB7385C6DB DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cygwin.com; s=default; t=1697149097; bh=gWOsxDN7qEzyPSonThL3slS7798tRPa3TK06TuCgp4U=; h=Date:Subject:To:References:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive:List-Post:List-Help:List-Subscribe:From:Reply-To: From; b=gslydGbT1d9Y6RcD8GDN6ovoS87bpxQrtG5qPZ+0oy5Wl29jHQGsxU57VnHZd99AS QsB7d3wFGdr1zbs0uF7n9fS5JyzfC4lPlMZSWPYQJpXOtY1C4aBnSE0A5eFUJaQWvv /A4ZP6TxNvGEN2SZ2eMYv6gs0e/tRpwWf65jVwVo= X-Original-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: cygwin@cygwin.com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org D9D15385559B X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1697149071; x=1697753871; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:content-language :references:to:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :sender:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=gPd8pRITNVnanFL3F8sMSodIojy6TuDC26PDpY6WRY4=; b=v9T1qdpPvNpoGkmt3cFpHZ1PUqcOy8oYA/m/OeNAjQQP7RDKuqUUVCNzCcJwgeDACh gZR5OnG3iM+NUBjXtxpwEo7pzsEkfGZGyYSJg6QLxQOIRdFypbjyefqXfRYRDnshqVUW qBrl41RJttUXi7QklFy//wRtiMjnO8SbWVAu+mniLfTeGEnXhOSI5YTEGauBIzD6CzQ3 GkK1wmehgbKTNAqyUA3I5KSnnFpp64VNy9Fj5d2itZEBvqETp6ehcBAIkCGmZxcwhJJ1 FOVpj3TqKOs3yL00ezNNkhOgkUbX2Mu57wfd1oa0y/SbHfjvltjUcX6sXYlWBNG3RSNL 9SxQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YxkG4vyiq2Z4326+9M2rKm87RUjLQXlF+l6tB5AFOcQV58fQym6 p7CndqeVf3i7MC0wtYefRgwn613JJXM= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IGH5M0RT1ahw01HAi2X4uCqaCL8q/EpY6OdUT1Dgwy3PuyEwztuYIKUB4gh62TnBjXMSvXwkQ== X-Received: by 2002:a17:903:260e:b0:1c9:d46e:d523 with SMTP id jd14-20020a170903260e00b001c9d46ed523mr4977127plb.7.1697149071289; Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:17:49 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <8cae1a30-cc92-cbea-4599-d7d550850ac5@cs.umass.edu> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN, FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: David Rothenberger via Cygwin Reply-To: David Rothenberger Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com Sender: "Cygwin" On 10/12/2023 2:46 PM, Eric Hendrickson via Cygwin wrote: > And your point about the effort involved and no known bugs is well taken of course but Cygwin is still distributing EOL software. This is why I asked, would it make sense to just not release new non emergency versions of Cygwin with EOL packages, until that can be remedied. Cygwin "releases" are just releases of the compatibility library, similar to the kernel in a Linux distribution. Cygwin doesn't have the equivalent of Debian releases, where all packages are tested for compatibility and released as a unit. For that reason, it doesn't make sense to pause Cygwin "releases" just because some of the packages are out-of-date, since Cygwin is itself just another one of these packages. -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth@acm.org -- 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