Re: Cygnus support

[Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@bnl.gov>]

On 04/30/2015 05:29 AM, Ralph Lange wrote:
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> Yes, Nick is right, this is about dropping support for the Cygwin
> run-time environment as a target arch.

.From my prospective dropping cygwin as a build target seems reasonable.
 I don't test with it, and to my knowledge it isn't used at all for NSLS2.

> ... the mingw on Windows target (creating native Windows
> binaries). (Which work nicely when cross-compiled on a Linux host, btw.)

I can (and do) test with a mingw cross compiler.  It's easy since cross
mingw in available for both Debian and RH based linux distributions.

> Should we send out a message on tech-talk, asking if there are actually any EPICS on Cygwin users left? 

Of course.  IMO the threshold for continued support should be the
availability of someone willing to commit resources to maintain it.