Andrey,
Having read the bug, I'm suspecting I missed some subtle point in your
questions. The points isn't so much about asking how many people use
it, but rather about asking if anyone on the list actually cares about
it. But I doubt anyone on the list has a ratty old 32 bit machine, so
it seems highly unlikely anyone cares about it personally; perhaps their
organization cares though. Most relevant to the first question seems to
me to be the number of users out in the wild who use/need it and also
highly relevant to the second question (my opinion on the matter of
dropping it) also seems to be the number of real users. So I posted
some stats to provide us a basis for forming such an opinion.
But perhaps an unstated question is, "Does anyone care enough to invest
effort in maintaining it, e.g., the referenced bug". Even if the number
of people who need/want 32 bit Linux were large, the answer to "do I
care enough to maintain it?", might still be no, even if I cared, I
might actually have no clue how to maintain native code. Definitely the
download stats indicate that 32 bit Linux is a relatively small "market
segment" for Eclipse and that no great harm would come to our market if
this segment were dropped. That certainly factors into any decision of
how to proceed. If the effort is large, and the market segment is small,
we (the developers and the community at large) might all be better off
with the developers investing in other more relevant ways...
Regards,
Ed
On 06.07.2018 16:59, Andrey Loskutov wrote:
Ed,
I guess you haven't read
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536766 ?
Kind regards,
Andrey Loskutov
http://google.com/+AndreyLoskutov
*Gesendet:* Freitag, 06. Juli 2018 um 16:55 Uhr
*Von:* "Ed Merks" <[email protected]>
*An:* [email protected]
*Betreff:* Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Drop 32 bit Linux support in
4.9?
I suppose that this mailing list is likely not the list of people who
would need it. Best to look at download stats, e.g., the following
suggests that a few hundred people have downloaded the JEE package for
32 bit linux.
On 06.07.2018 16:36, Andrey Loskutov wrote:
Hi all,
I'm wondering if someone still uses/needs Linux 32 bit builds?
I would like to know your opinion if we could drop 32 bit Linux support in
4.9?
Reasoning / discussion please
to:https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536766.
Kind regards,
Andrey Loskutov
http://google.com/+AndreyLoskutov
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