On 1/14/14 10:38 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: > > > On 2014-01-14, 1:46 AM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> On 1/14/14 8:29 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>> Many older computers will only run 32 bit Linux. This may not be >>> common among developers, but certainly is among older users and >>> installers/linux advocates who migrate older users to cast off >>> machines from children. My own main editing comouter is a 32 bit >>> running Xubuntu and OpenOffice. If I am asked to salvage a cast off >>> computer I normally reformat the HD and put 32 bit linux on it >>> without further thought, as this will run on nearly anything. I would >>> regret the loss of OO 32 bit. > >> ok, I should take off my developer glasses;-) >> >> Juergen > > The same applies to Macs. If you continue to provide 32 bit Linux you > should continue offering 32 bit for Macs.
I think I have already described why that is not easy possible and requires much more work. We have good reasons to move to a newer MacOS platform SDK (explained already) if we don't want to risk to run in problems on newer or future MacOS versions. APIs are already deprecated by Apple and we have to take this into account. I also promised that we can give support if anybody is interested to invest the time in supporting an older SDK than 10.7 and potentially also a 32 bit version for MacOS. Our plan is to focus on modern systems only and especially on Mac the situation is different than on Linux. Newer Mac systems are all running on 64 bit. It is not the question of 32 or 64 bit on Mac but more which platform SDK we need as baseline. To repeat it again AOO 4.1 will require the 10.7 SDK and if somebody is interested to work on support for 10.6 stand up now. And for Linux 32 bit binaries are not built automatically and we spent a lot of time on it. We need an older baseline that is not supported by infra on the Apache bots, means we can't easy use the build bots for our releases. Where are the volunteers who take care of this? Where are the volunteers who convince infra that we need at least 2 VMs (32 and 64 bit) that matches our baseline. Currently it is not a problem and it is clear that 32 bit Linux is widely used. But anybody who is requesting here the support should think about it. I have enough other things to do and this is a community project, anybody can help to provide the binaries on his own machine that matches the baseline. Juergen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
