What's the reason from dropping some mingw32 packages?

[gpakosz]

I'm referring to commit 5b14514 which removed mingw-w64-i686-clang.

cc @MehdiChinoune

Thank you!

[ognevny]

what's purpose of having clang for mingw32 specifically? why not using GCC (as it's default), and why not using 64-bit clang from UCRT64 or CLANG64?

[gpakosz]

I was using mingw-w64-i686-clang in some GitHub actions to add more CI coverage: compiling for different architectures with different compilers.

Happy to learn what's a good replacement for this use case.

[ognevny]

it doesn't make much sense, I believe. it's really rare for now to use 32-bit Windows compiler, especially clang when GCC is the default here. for you mingw-w64-i686-gcc is enough

[MehdiChinoune]

https://www.msys2.org/news/#2023-12-13-starting-to-drop-some-32-bit-packages