On 2024-05-19 09:38, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
On 19/05/2024 00:17, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote:
FWIW Although this wording seems to indicate Cygwin is still supported on
32-bit Windows, just discouraged.
This seems like a willfully context-blind reading.
The table above lists Windows versions for which support has been discontinued,
which includes "All 32-bit".
Further, https://cygwin.com/ plainly states "The Cygwin DLL currently works with
all recent, commercially released x86_64 versions of Windows ...", which seems
pretty unambiguous.
Suggestions on how to improve this obviously welcomed. (but I'm not a big fan of
"put fact A in place X as well as place Y, so people who ignored it in place Y
because it didn't fit there priors can continue to ignore it in place X as well.")
Best practice for any communication is:
Tell them what you are going to tell them,
Tell them what you want them to know,
Tell them what you told them.
-- Aristotelian Triptych
That is presumably triply true for unwelcome news!
"The human brain evidently operates on some variation of the famous principle
enunciated in 'The Hunting of the Snark': 'What I tell you three times is true.'"
-- Norbert Weiner, "Cybernetics"
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