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All, |
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With haubi recently retiring from the project, I've taken a close look |
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at platforms we have in use, and cleaned up a lot of them that we have |
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absolutely no means to support (any more). This includes old Darwin and |
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Solaris releases, entire support for HPUX, AIX, etc. |
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I've left x64-cygwin and x86-winnt untouched in that process. However, |
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x64-cygwin in particular requires a large amount of |
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(non-trivial/disturbing) patches, basically blocking our merging of the |
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Prefix overlay into gx86. |
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It seems to me, x64-cygwin and x86-winnt have no sponsor whatsoever at |
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this point within Gentoo, or our direct user-base. Some user that |
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submitted a lot of patches/fixes on our bugzilla in the past pointed out |
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that Cygwin is no longer necessary for him due to effortless bootstraps |
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on "WSL". |
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So, the inevitable question: who needs x64-cygwin/x86-winnt, and who |
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would take care of maintaining it? If noone steps up (I cannot even run |
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the platform) before Feb 1st 2021, I'll probably continue and drop these |
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two from Gentoo at some point after that. |
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Please chime in if you have an opinion, info, interest, etc. |
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Thanks, |
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Fabian |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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