On 2/2/21 12:16 PM, Paul Reeves wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 11:32:42 +0300
Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel <firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
On 2/1/21 10:24 PM, marius adrian popa wrote:
My guess old cpus or installs
Example got laptop with Windows 10 32 that is still supported by >
Microsoft also have an old laptop with Ubuntu 32bit also another old >
raspberry pi that is 32 bit only
I doubt all that list is worth having _new_ versions 32 bit.
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Presumably the original question implied x86 rather than 32-bit in general.
I doubt that our user base for 32-bit ARM is really very significant but
32-bit ARM chips probably have a good future ahead of them.
Not sure. I visited eShop - only 46 cheap-most phones of 616 have 32-bit
CPUs. And they use chips developed in 2014. All the rest are at least
Cortex-A53.
32-bit x86 chips
seem to largely have gone the way of 16-bit x86.
Exactly.
I certainly ask myself the question about x86 quite frequently. I can see a
reason for maintaining support in the code base but I find it hard to justify
producing official x86 binaries for new versions of Firebird.
Yes. I just want to make clean what do we mean under 'new versions'.
On my mind version 3 that already had 32-bit binaries for a long time
should continue providing them in maintaness releases.
Post-4 version (still not sure 4.1, 5.0 - but it does not matter now)
has absolutely no reasons to support 32-bit HW (at least x86, but sooner
of all no armv7a too).
I'm unsure what to do with FB4. We used to publish 32-bit binaries for
beta & rc - i.e. looks like they should be in release too but I see no
other reason why should they be in release...
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