Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Martin Oberzalek <martin.oberzalek@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Future of x64-cygwin, x86-winnt?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 05:04:50
Message-Id: 1610946285.5859.16.camel@ssi-schaefer.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Future of x64-cygwin, x86-winnt? by Fabian Groffen
1 Hello Fabian,
2
3 > So, the inevitable question: who needs x64-cygwin/x86-winnt, and who
4 > would take care of maintaining it? If noone steps up (I cannot even run
5 > the platform) before Feb 1st 2021, I'll probably continue and drop these
6 > two from Gentoo at some point after that.
7 >
8 > Please chime in if you have an opinion, info, interest, etc.
9
10 we are using a fork from haubi from last year und using
11 * x64-cygwin
12 * x86-winnt
13 * x64-winnt
14
15 x86-winnt is not so important for us. In fact, maybe we will also switch to WSL for our use case in future...
16
17 But now we are using actual cygwin versions and our fork of gentoo. Currently this is only working
18 with the developer release of the cygwin.dll. What I can do is: testing the gentoo prefix stack with
19 this upcomming new cygwin release (when its released) and give some feedback. If I can get it working I would update
20
21 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/Cygwin
22
23 Regards, Martin

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Re: [gentoo-alt] Future of x64-cygwin, x86-winnt? Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>