From 89521b9f8d43b6ebf4a4f4a51c912066ab5f5b50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Reiter Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:07:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: add entry for CLANG32 removal --- web/news.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/web/news.md b/web/news.md index 678e29ff..9f56f5af 100644 --- a/web/news.md +++ b/web/news.md @@ -5,6 +5,22 @@ summary: Important events happening. This page lists important changes or issues affecting MSYS2 users. We also post them to [Twitter](https://twitter.com/msys2org) and [Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@msys2org), including some not-so-important things :) +### 2024-09-23 - Starting to drop the CLANG32 environment + +9 months ago we started to reduce the number of packages for the 32-bit +environments. Now we are starting to drop the CLANG32 environment. This means +that we will no longer add new packages for this environment and will remove the +existing ones over the next months. If this is affecting you, please let us +know. + +While CLANG32 has some unique features in the context of MSYS2, such as being +the only environment to use UCRT for 32-bit and the LLVM toolchain, it has seen +very little use in our download statistics, and we don't think it's worth +supporting any longer. + +If you are in need for a 32-bit LLVM toolchain, consider using [LLVM +MinGW](https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw) instead. + ### 2024-07-28 - MSYS2 support in setuptools v70.0.2 Setuptools v70.0.2 now supports mingw Python and MSYS2 natively. This eliminates