Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread gs-cygwin.com--- via Cygwin
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 11:15:40PM -0500, Eric D Hendrickson wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for your reply. Again, to the point that this is an all volunteer > effort. > > And not taking away from any of what you said. > > However, sorry I was not more clear. The issue here is as follows. > > Is

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Eric D Hendrickson via Cygwin
Hello, Thanks for your reply. Again, to the point that this is an all volunteer effort. And not taking away from any of what you said. However, sorry I was not more clear. The issue here is as follows. Is Cygwin as a whole not more important than any one package? Cygwin is distributing a sui

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread gs-cygwin.com--- via Cygwin
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 09:55:04PM -0500, Eric D Hendrickson via Cygwin wrote: > Sorry for the unclarity - I meant this for the whole list - not just you. > > Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. Like you said, this > really is all volunteers. > > For the whole list: > > Totally ta

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Eric D Hendrickson via Cygwin
Sorry for the unclarity - I meant this for the whole list - not just you. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. Like you said, this really is all volunteers. For the whole list: Totally taking into account the all volunteer nature of Cygwin, would it make sense to defer on further n

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 10/11/2023 6:36 PM, Hendrickson, Eric D wrote: Hi Eliot, Thanks for responding. That makes total sense. Totally taking into account the all volunteer nature of Cygwin, would it make sense to defer on further non-emergency releases of Cygwin until all packages that are EOL have been update

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Yasuhiro Kimura via Cygwin
From: "Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin" Subject: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9? Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:37:29 + > Hello all, > > As a ~25 year user and sometime contributor to Cygwin, I support Cygwin here > at my place of work. Does anyone know why we are deploying Ruby 2.6 which > EOL about

RE: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin
Hi Eliot, Thanks for responding. That makes total sense. Totally taking into account the all volunteer nature of Cygwin, would it make sense to defer on further non-emergency releases of Cygwin until all packages that are EOL have been updated? Since this is the case with ruby, I am guessi

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Eliot Moss via Cygwin
On 10/11/2023 12:37 PM, Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin wrote: Hello all, As a ~25 year user and sometime contributor to Cygwin, I support Cygwin here at my place of work. Does anyone know why we are deploying Ruby 2.6 which EOL about 18 months ago? https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/bran

GDB configuration for multi-arch

2023-10-11 Thread Old, Oliver via Cygwin
Good evening! I have been looking for a way to debug programs on multiple targets of different architectures via gdbserver. It seems that Cygwin currently doesn't provide a gdb configured for this scenario. The gdb from the Cygwin distribution isn't configured with '--enable-targets=all'. I'm

Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-11 Thread Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin
Hello all, As a ~25 year user and sometime contributor to Cygwin, I support Cygwin here at my place of work. Does anyone know why we are deploying Ruby 2.6 which EOL about 18 months ago? https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/ I'm concerned about proliferation of EOL versions of Ruby