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 AC4CA158014 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 14:27:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3D76E01B5; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 14:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (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 966BDE01B5 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 14:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:27:15 +0200 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Future of x64-cygwin, x86-winnt? Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org References: <1610946285.5859.16.camel@ssi-schaefer.com> <1611039480.3306.10.camel@ssi-schaefer.com> 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="S1GbH2uVrd20XOIV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/2.1.2 (Darwin 20.6.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Archives-Salt: a5b22982-f11c-43c8-82e8-99dd0115f56f X-Archives-Hash: ee0b592ad62ec9197bb1bad223d926fa --S1GbH2uVrd20XOIV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable With the lack of support, and bitrot in the tree, I see no other option but to remove x64-cygwin from the tree. I'll do so in the coming weeks. Fabian On 21-01-2021 21:40:51 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Hi Martin, >=20 > On 19-01-2021 07:58:00 +0100, Martin Oberzalek wrote: > > > > gentoo prefix stack with > > > > this upcomming new cygwin release (when its released) and give some= feedback. If > > > > I can get it working I would update > > > > > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/Cygwin[1] > > > > > > I'm trying to understand what this means. I'm sure/certain the curre= nt > > > tree doesn't work for Cygwin. This means I anticipate you'll have to > > > patch/fix a lot of packages for it. Would it be more useful to use an > > > overlay for Cygwin instead? > >=20 > > I agree, maybe this would be a good solution. >=20 > I'm looking for who would maintain Cygwin/Windows, and how. >=20 > Currently there is a lot of remnants of Cygwin, but also decay. Python > for instance got its Cygwin patches dropped (they didn't apply, and we > had to move on for security and other reasons), hence I know for sure > that Cygwin support is virtually non-existant in the current tree. >=20 > I don't want to destroy the work of others, but at the current state, I > cannot maintain Cygwin or Windows (nor do I have incentive to do so). > With haubi retiring from the project, there's officially no Gentoo > developers working on this. >=20 > If a separate overlay or fork is the way to go, we can see if we can get > such repo on Gentoo hardware and set it up, turn Cygwin into a proper > sub-project or something, and move anything necessary there as not to > hold back the Prefix migration of whatever's left back into the main > gentoo repository. >=20 > Thanks, > Fabian >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Fabian Groffen > Gentoo on a different level --=20 Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level --S1GbH2uVrd20XOIV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEELUvHd/Gtp7LaU1vuzpXahU5EQpMFAmErmUMACgkQzpXahU5E QpOOagf/fcYNvv68evFsl2LnKZJ5f/u61RxXmLv6XrHt/7W6EEmh6uSqai2tDurV 0d/2Uk2ChPcUqVQNYM/pi4sSrRgRr4zD+AO/9CHMSDJxLFZgcIfMDh2PpqreQeQt NU20MDRXQ6LHmol2WZ5Xt+vEER6TwuFo0BGF3y5rB9rEw4BzGQlNhF/K1Pz76CZy o75oam3O2wEfcH2zOsXA//RPr/LsrE24olN6Aauvly8f7bWmoZQY8oHXu8Bpu9a1 v1okRZiFHPBPA2/fzu6ZAx5Plz24mjGpO1TXcRhRqrTASflMtsBJ1izazUoj45pP VSGn6KAdNFzP885QIiW/QVj3L7BA2w== =M7mb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --S1GbH2uVrd20XOIV--