On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:26 AM Carl Kleffner via NumPy-Discussion < [email protected]> wrote:
> There are some niche Windows 32-bit applications I'm aware of. However, > none of theses are related to scientific computing. Two > scipy questionaries related to this topic: > releasing-or-not-32-bit-windows-wheels > <https://discuss.scientific-python.org/t/releasing-or-not-32-bit-windows-wheels/282> > and Poll: availability for 32bit Windows scipy binaries in future > <https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/16286> raised no red flags > concerning removing 32-bit. And these inquiries were made almost four years > ago! > > There is only one webassembly support (pyidide, pyscript) which may be in > some form relevant to this question, as wasm32 is still the dominant > platform. > There are several CI jobs for 32-bit platforms, including Pyodide (for which we also release nightly wheels) and armhf. Also, distros like Debian need support for several 32-bit platforms. We're not dropping any source-level support here. Cheers, Ralf > Cheers > > Carl > > Am Di., 12. Mai 2026 um 09:34 Uhr schrieb Matthew Brett via > NumPy-Discussion <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 6:52 AM matti picus via NumPy-Discussion >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 3:42 AM Charles R Harris via NumPy-Discussion >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > > Hi All, >> > > >> > > I would like to propose dropping 32 bit windows support in the NumPy >> 2.6 branch. It is time, Steam is dropping support, and most downstream >> projects dropped support some time ago. We can still test it, perhaps, but >> the world isn't going that way. >> > > >> > > Chuck >> > >> > +1 from me >> > Matti >> >> Worth floating with Steve Dower? https://stevedower.id.au/about ; >> https://github.com/zooba >> >> I seem to remember him saying, quite a few years ago, that 32-bit >> Windows was in practice only important for Windows ARM users running >> the 32-bit Intel binaries under emulation. Now there are Windows ARM >> wheels (and CI), so I bet that there are a very small number of people >> who need these. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/numpy-discussion.python.org >> Member address: [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/numpy-discussion.python.org > Member address: [email protected] >
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