"In the long term", "just a matter of time" is fine. But today we have 32bit Tizen running on 32bit devices, and it should be able to self-host building Tizen.
Regards Joel -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Leon Anavi Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey : dropping 32bit linux support Hi Daniel, Carsten, All, On 2013-09-23 03:46, Daniel Juyung Seo wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Carsten Haitzler >> imagine if all the engineers and executives etc. at bmw drove fords >> because "bmw's can't manage to get us to the office without breaking >> down". > > Awesome analogy. > > I am also against dropping 32 bit system support for dev tools. > > I bet many people I know use 32 bit system yet. > The example with the cars is nice but I don't think it's very appropriate. In my opinion it is fine to drop 32-bit support although I still keep 32-bit distributions on some of my older computers. Today nobody uses 16-bit OS for development of Tizen and in long term I don't expect anybody to be using 32-bit. So dropping 32-bit support is just a matter of time. Almost all of the CPU for personal computers produced in the last 5 years are with 64-bit instruction sets. The majority of developers (including me) that still have 32-bit OS on some computers actually have a compatible 64-bit hardware and just have to replace the OS and the dev environment with a 64-bit version. Best regards, Leon -- http://anavi.org/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general
