I think 13.2% of downloads is still a lot, that's about the same percentage as macOS + Linux downloads. However by the time 2.8 is released that number will be lower, and I expect most of those computers will not have a GPU with the new OpenGL minimum requirements anyway.
The Steam hardware survey shows only 2% of their users have a 32 bit OS. That makes me doubt if the Blender download statistics are representative for the installed OS, though it's not clear to me why they wouldn't be. Overall I think it's reasonable to stop supporting 32 bit. On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 11:30 AM, blendergit <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the point here is if we want use our limited resources in a > version that is used by a few number of users. > > The decision must be more strategic than technical. The users using 32bits > always can download 2.79, but if they want to use last 2.8 features, need a > 64 bits computer (nothing fancy today). > > To have only 64 bits versions in windows will release some resources to > work in improve Blender instead to use that time in keep running something > outdated. > > Antonio > > De: Knapp > Enviado: sábado, 27 de enero de 2018 23:10 > Para: bf-blender developers > Asunto: Re: [Bf-committers] Changes to Windows Compiler Support. > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 9:36 PM, Ray Molenkamp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > the website does a rather excellent job at giving people the proper > > download for their platform, i'm pretty sure those are legitimate 32 bit > > users. > > > > --Ray > > > I was not falting the website at all, just that us users can sometimes be > asleep. I know that I one time downloaded 32 bit 2.79 by misclicking and > then came back and downloaded the correct one. > > -- > Douglas E Knapp, MSAOM, LAc. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
