Hi all,
My team manages some Python packages on that are running on a Cygwin terminal, one dependency of which is Pydantic. My understanding is that Pydantic 2 now uses Rust for its backend, and I would like to know if it's possible to install Rust (or the libraries that Pydantic and other Python packages relying on Rust will require) on Cygwin?
I encountered this ticket from years ago (link), and would like to know if any progress has been made in this regard since then?
Thanks!
In #79854 someone said in May that they have a fork that builds for cygwin.
Is cygwin still used/relevant/even maintained? I was under the impression that WSL had completely replaced it.
Ah, thank you for linking me to that, @the8472! I'll see if I can get in touch with the people involved regarding the status of the Rust compilers for Cygwin.
Hi @Vorpal, ours might admittedly be a niche case, haha.
The project my team is working on involves the transfer and processing of data from a Windows machine provided by an external equipment supplier (so we have no permission to modify things, install Windows Sub-System for Linux, and other such things) to a Linux storage server. As such, Cygwin was the most standalone and lightweight thing we could install that would help facilitate that transfer between the two systems.
Cygwin does still appear to be maintained (updates are still being rolled out, and there's talks of releasing a version with Python 3.12 once Python 3.9 hits end-of-life, for example), but from what I've seen from the threads, there doesn't appear to be much traction to support Rust (link).
You could try the msys2 environment (which is what git bash for windows is based on). It has a rust package.