Hi Alexis, PRs are always welcome! If you're able to make the 32-bit builds work, we can put that in the repo...but if you're not able to maintain it long-term, and we get bug reports on it, we reserve the right to remove the scripts as well ;)
I get that some people want 32-bit CouchDB to run on legacy machines and OSes. However.... We're not going to be building 32-bit binaries for distribution through couchdb.apache.org, especially not when many other HW and SW vendors have announced removal of 32-bit support: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/06/07/0538233/apple-to-phase-out-32-bit-mac-apps-starting-in-january-2018 https://www.networkworld.com/article/3091818/linux/linux-distros-look-to-drop-32-bit-support.html https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/nvidia-dropping-support-for-32-bit-oses-nvidia.2531426/ https://www.techpowerup.com/221296/amd-preparing-to-drop-32-bit-support-for-radeon-drivers I am personally in line with Brian Wilson at Backblaze on this one: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/64-bit-os-vs-32-bit-os/ You can't buy new hardware that won't run 64-bit Windows anymore, and there is no practical reason to install 32-bit Windows on a machine capable of running 64-bit Windows. Limiting CouchDB to only run in <4GB of RAM severely hamstrings what it is capable of. We typically see a server using 8-16GB of RAM in production. I don't want to encourage people to run a CouchDB that prevents them from making full use of the database just because it's been compiled with the wrong options. </soapbox> -Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexis Côté" <ac...@apache.org> To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 11:49:11 AM Subject: CouchDB 32bit Windows build Hi everyone, I am currently working to build CouchDB for Windows 32bit. I modified few scripts and was wondering if there is any interest to have that on our couchdb-glazier repository? I could either create a new branch for CouchDB 2.X.X 32bit or simply add the modified files with a _32 suffix. Example: shell_32.cmd What do you think? Regards, Alexis
