From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DCDC1382C5 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 265EDE096C; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7CC6E096C for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:38:23 +0100 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-alt] Future of x64-cygwin, x86-winnt? Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8EQfmoJuXehy1u1z" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.4 (Darwin 17.7.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Archives-Salt: 158ae083-9585-4e9c-a353-dd1d4e1f2c93 X-Archives-Hash: 8e9d4cf71e0ca3f2415293044bb77139 --8EQfmoJuXehy1u1z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable All, With haubi recently retiring from the project, I've taken a close look at platforms we have in use, and cleaned up a lot of them that we have absolutely no means to support (any more). This includes old Darwin and Solaris releases, entire support for HPUX, AIX, etc. I've left x64-cygwin and x86-winnt untouched in that process. However, x64-cygwin in particular requires a large amount of (non-trivial/disturbing) patches, basically blocking our merging of the Prefix overlay into gx86. It seems to me, x64-cygwin and x86-winnt have no sponsor whatsoever at this point within Gentoo, or our direct user-base. Some user that submitted a lot of patches/fixes on our bugzilla in the past pointed out that Cygwin is no longer necessary for him due to effortless bootstraps on "WSL". So, the inevitable question: who needs x64-cygwin/x86-winnt, and who would take care of maintaining it? If noone steps up (I cannot even run the platform) before Feb 1st 2021, I'll probably continue and drop these two from Gentoo at some point after that. Please chime in if you have an opinion, info, interest, etc. Thanks, Fabian --=20 Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level --8EQfmoJuXehy1u1z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEELUvHd/Gtp7LaU1vuzpXahU5EQpMFAmAALS8ACgkQzpXahU5E QpPpWgf9E9YQACuAcFbnx/QupLJG4fwKRhlmjuv+876WLqzN+dTlwq6nMYOa0LuZ Wd2PkBe7ti6zRqacqEhdPb8O/aTY79qEKycfnhPpNatUs75DUatOih1uEvLNLUlc GBUkbbEUEJkXD3nuZt7WZ5Eypwq5YIB6CRrVfJ9xK5ohjic4P50dxDWsa82okUWe 4uGwJrbX3kbjdRsTslgqJpmq6im9P52RWrTQ3jg2X57bN6up4f0QISTQazT6I7kx RMeXn5FDddYMZWQHZvXFqm6EqydVJuHJj53FU2Yl8aqhSMl5b2UdEwe67oPxvhQB sIKQPcv3MJgFxYBEC2ARs5KKGfjaYQ== =36jF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8EQfmoJuXehy1u1z--