On 25 November 2023 12:55:54 GMT, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote:
>We dropped Cygwin support in September 2022,
>
> https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/Sage-9.7-Release-Tour
>
>but that was mainly a documentation change reflecting the fact that
>Cygwin support had bit-rotted.
>
>Anyone could have fixed it at that point -- or in the meantime -- but
>no one has done so. I think it's time to admit that Cygwin is a dead
>platform for us. WSL is a much easier replacement these days if your
>goal is to get Sage running on Windows.
>
>The issue was made relevant again by PR #36129 which reintroduces the
>psutil package as standard. The meat of psutil is platform-specific C
>code that does not work on Cygwin, and it's not something we can
>realistically fix.
>
>If it's never coming back, I'd like to start removing the old Cygwin
>workarounds from sage. This is your heads up in case there are still
>users out there.
Please proceed.
I'm pretty certain Cygwin won't be around any more in few years.
It was a serious waste of resources to have it supported in the 1st place
(well, Windows support was a part of our Horizon 2020 grant...)
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