Re: Future of 32-bit distro

2018-01-13 Thread David Stacey
On 12/01/18 18:11, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: If it is not possible for the entire 32-bit distribution to function as a whole, is it time to reconsider how much we provide for 32-bit? And when can we just drop 32-bit entirely? I suspect there are a great number of people running 32-bit Windows,

Re: Future of 32-bit distro

2018-01-12 Thread Keith Christian
Brian, Yes, I install everything. Cygwin has so many great utilities. I'd like to change this to remove Gnome and KDE, and run updates from the command line with setup-x86.exe, ignoring downloading or updating Gnome and KDE. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Future of 32-bit distro

2018-01-12 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-01-12 13:23, Houder wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:33:46, Keith Christian wrote: >> I run the 32 bit Cygwin on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine and install >> everything, because it has been unnecessary to waste time picking and >> choosing packages even though I don't use them all. I've been d

Re: Future of 32-bit distro (was: rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space)

2018-01-12 Thread Keith Christian
See my post in the other "Re: Future of 32-bit distro" thread about using setup-x86.exe to remove KDE and GNOME. Keith -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubs

Re: Future of 32-bit distro (was: rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space)

2018-01-12 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jan 12, 2018, at 12:11 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On 2018-01-12 03:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jan 11 22:52, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> The full list contains 8006 lines, i have the complete Cygwin 32bit >>> installation >> >> The bottom line of this is, and it has been said befo

Re: Future of 32-bit distro

2018-01-12 Thread Steven Penny
On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:02:18, Brian Inglis wrote: When the 32 bit toolchain is available under x86_64 for cross builds and testing this doesnt make sense. at least with Mingw-w64, this is already the case: - mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core: 64-bit tools for building 64-bit EXEs - mingw64-i686-gcc-core

Re: Future of 32-bit distro

2018-01-12 Thread Keith Christian
I run the 32 bit Cygwin on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine and install everything, because it has been unnecessary to waste time picking and choosing packages even though I don't use them all. I've been doing this for years and suspect many other Cygwin aficionados do the same. I asked a related quest

Re: Future of 32-bit distro

2018-01-12 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-01-12 11:11, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2018-01-12 03:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jan 11 22:52, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> The full list contains 8006 lines, i have the complete Cygwin 32bit >>> installation >> >> The bottom line of this is, and it has been said before and I can't