On 16/06/2023 21:42, Mark Thomas wrote:
There are lots of interesting things about those numbers but in terms of 32-bit Windows support there still looks to be a demand for it all the way up to Tomcat 10. If we were to drop it for one we might as well drop it for all but I think there is enough demand to keep producing the 32-bit binaries for now.
We don't know if there is a real demand for 32-bit binaries or if this simply reflects random clicks on the download page. The 32-bit zip is listed before the 64-bit one, this might inflate the numbers.
Running Tomcat on Windows with less than 4GB RAM doesn't make much sense nowadays in my opinion. If someone really has a memory constrained server he would run Linux and not Windows.
I'm +1 for releasing Tomcat 11 with 64-bit binaries only, but I wouldn't wait until 2025 to drop the 32-bit distribution for the previous releases. If nobody complains about the lack of 32-bit support in Tomcat 11 by the end of 2023, I would suggest dropping the 32-bit binary distribution for Tomcat 10 as well.
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