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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 updated?  Since this is the case with ruby, I am guessing it's likely the case with other packages in Cygwin too.
> 
> Is there a backlog for Cygwin somewhere, so that I can investigate this myself if I have time this winter?
> 
> Thank you and all the best,
> Eric
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Moss <moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 5:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?
> 
> 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/branches/
>>
>> I'm concerned about proliferation of EOL versions of Ruby in case some security risk / 0Day is identified.
>>
>> Please advise.
>> Eric Hendrickson

You should send such things to the list, not me.  I'm just
a user who has only made occasional small contributions ...

Eliot

> If nobody has responded I can give a generic response:
> "Because cygwin is all volunteer and someone has not volunteered, or did volunteer and is behind, or fell off the radar."
> 
> Someone else will know how to look up if there is a currently registered volunteer for Ruby ...
> 
> Eliot Moss
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