This was brought to our attention by a community contributor named Ankit in bug 1110236.
- mhoye On Feb 26, 2015, 6:06 PM, at 6:06 PM, Kyle Huey <m...@kylehuey.com> wrote: >Is there evidence that real humans are affected by this? > >- Kyle > >On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mike Hoye <mh...@mozilla.com> 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 >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >> _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
