Is there evidence that real humans are affected by this? - Kyle
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mike Hoye <[email protected]> wrote: > > As far as I can tell from Bug 1110236 and my own testing, it's no longer > possible to build Firefox on 32-bit Windows systems. Recent changes to how > we use our linker will reliably cause the error described in the bug. > > I've filed bug 1137346 to that effect; I don't see an answer, and I > suspect building on 32-bit Windows is a thing of the past. > > I believe this is an unexpected side effect of the recent libXUL > consoldiation; I haven't been able to find anyone anticipating this in > Bugzilla, and we certainly didn't update the relevant documentation. I know > that this is a problem for exactly zero of Mozilla's employees, but it's > potentially a deal-breaker for many of our contributors. Asking civilians > to upgrade their OS in order to keep participating is a really big ask, and > we've accidentally forced this upgrade-or-go-away decision on some of our > community members with zero advance warning. > > I was really happy that the burden on community participantion was > considered when we moved to VS2013 as the windows minimum environment. That > said, I don't know how many contributors this affects, and I can guess that > it's too late to roll back the libXUL changes at my numerically-unsupported > request. > > Instead, I propose that we stand up a variety of old, slow, minimum-spec > "approved" development boxes, build on them daily. If forward progress > means we need to abandon a category of developers' machines, I ask that we > try to do that with as much transparency and advance notice as we'd grant a > category of users in the same position. > > Thanks. > > - mhoye > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1110236 > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1137346 > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
