You claim you don't have enough resources to test both 64-bit and 32- bit support, well that's fine. 32-bit operating systems are a thing of the past anyway! Focus on the future... This 2-year-old patch is so trivial, that if you would just devote your testing resources for a little while to the 64-bit platform, I'm sure it would stabilise quickly. 64-bit CPUs have been in use since April 2003, and Intel hasn't even produced 32-bit CPUs since Jan 2006, according to Wikipedia. While Windows may be slow to move to 64-bit, Linux is not, as support has been there since before the hardware was even available. There is no reason for any Linux user to use a 32-bit operating system on an even remotely modern computer. Of course there are plenty of people still using older machines, and Linux supports them well, but those people are very unlikely to be running Google Gears, which as a new beta product, and should be focused on current (e.g. merely 7 years old!) technology.
Is this project not accepting source submissions? I don't understand why this patch hasn't been merged in all this time... I suppose I understand no one wanting to fork a product like this, which essentially only benefits Google. It's just sad that while the source is open, the development is not... People have already done the work for you, so just merge the code already! Just my .02... Ryan Hayle
