On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Zhang, Qiang Z <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Developers, > > This is a simple survey about how many developers still want to use 32bit > Linux for development. > > Currently, platform development tools(gbs/mic) support 32bit/64bit on the > following 9 distributions: > > * Ubuntu 13.04 > * Ubuntu 12.10 > * Ubuntu 12.04 > * openSUSE 12.3 > * openSUSE 12.2 > * openSUSE 12.1 > * Fedora 19 > * Fedora 18 > * CentOS 6 > > 32bit qemu does not works well while building special packages, such as > eglibc. Besides this, the maintenance and testing for each platform is a > very time consuming work, so if we drop the possible seldom used 32bit > platforms' support, the update of tools will be much more agile. > > As Tizen will support 64bit build in the future, which can only be built by > using 64bit system, so it's recommended to switch to 64bit system ASAP. > > Now we will do the survey before our final decision. > > Survey page: > http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/xiaoqiang/tizen-platform-development-tools-survey/ > > We will collect the survey and send out it, which is the basis for our > decision to dropping 32bit Linux support
I'm opposed to this. 64bit support in Tizen is not yet mainstream at all, as a matter of fact it's barely been implemented in 3.0, and no major release that developers can use yet has happened. Can we maintain 32bit code until most developers have had a major release on 64bit? It will be a significant amount of time until that really happens. Auke _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general
