[HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support [XEmacs for 64-bit?]
Dan Harkless
dan.harkless@gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 22:37:43 GMT 2021
Oops, sorry for the direct email. Didn't realize you now have to use
the "Reply List" button that pops into existence rather than the normal
Reply button. I re-sent to the list.
- Dan Harkless
On 10/27/2021 3:35 PM, Dan Harkless wrote:
> On 10/26/2021 1:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
>> We're also planning to drop Support for the 32 bit release of Cygwin in
>> 2022, thus Cygwin 3.4.0 won't come in 32 bit anymore, and the package
>> maintainers won't have to update 32 bit packages anymore. If you're
>> still running Cygwin under WOW64, consider to move to 64 bit in the next
>> couple of months.
> Except for my 32-bit Windows 7 (upgraded to 8.1) netbook, the only
> reason I still install Cygwin32 in parallel with Cygwin64 is so I can
> install the XEmacs packages. Anyone know more about the difficulty in
> getting those packages to work on 64-bit? XEmacs from EPEL works fine
> on 64-bit Linux, FWIW.
>
> From past attempts, I know it would take far too much time (and Elisp
> programming) to get GNU Emacs up to the usability level that I've had
> XEmacs at since the '90s.
>
> (w3m-img is another package only available on Cygwin32 that I install,
> but I don't use it and am not concerned about that one.)
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Harkless
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