Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support [XEmacs for 64-bit?]
Dan Harkless via Cygwin writes: > ... > Anyone know more about the difficulty in getting those packages to > work on 64-bit? Um, yes, I did a lot of work on that back in 2015 and got it working under Cygwin, with a lot of help from Vin Shelton, but never to the point of public release because it _only_ compiled with gcc, not with native Windows C tool chain. I still use it every day, it crashes about once a week. Given the demise of 32-bit, I'll try to get back to it some time in the next few months, but there's other stuff in the queue ahead of that... ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support [XEmacs for 64-bit?]
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 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support [XEmacs for 64-bit?]
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 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support [XEmacs for 64-bit?]
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 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
