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Question: is cygwin a supported platform? #21180

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ricea opened this issue Jan 15, 2020 · 6 comments
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Question: is cygwin a supported platform? #21180

ricea opened this issue Jan 15, 2020 · 6 comments
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ricea commented Jan 15, 2020

I'd like to drop cygwin support from pywebsocket, but I won't do that if cygwin is officially supported by web platform tests.

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Hexcles commented Jan 15, 2020

At least it's not the recommended way to run tests on Windows. @jgraham do you happen to know? cc @mustjab in case folks at Microsoft use cygwin (I suspect not)

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jgraham commented Jan 15, 2020

I am somewhat concerned that the windows development environment for gecko is using cygwin, and so dropping support might break that.

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jgraham commented Jan 15, 2020

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@jgraham That says Mozilla uses MSYS, so not cygwin. I strongly suspect cygwin support is irrelevant.

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Mozilla docs include:

The build may fail if you have Cygwin installed. Make sure that the MozillaBuild directories (/c/mozilla-build and subdirectories) come before any Cygwin directories in your PATH environment variable. If this does not help, remove the Cygwin directories from PATH, or try building on a clean PC with no Cygwin.

So yeah, I would agree that looks like Cygwin is not required for Gecko on Windows.

Let's make this official (though I don't think it requires an rfc). I'm cc-ing the major folks involved below (feel free to add people) - if nobody objects by next Monday let's say Cygwin is not supported.

cc @mustjab @foolip @Hexcles @jgraham @gsnedders

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No replies over 10 days later, so I'm closing this.

@ricea - feel free to consider cygwin unsupported.

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