So we have working 32bit builds up until today's master and I am thinking of ways to continue to have 32 bit builds, just potentially without the ability to download from the Garmin Descent Mk2 - unless I can fix that part.
Likely we'll just have two binaries, just like we have for macOS. /D > On Oct 29, 2020, at 4:05 PM, Stephen Goodall > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could you do a 32-bit "freeze", so it still works but you don't need to worry > about building it in future? > Or maybe just do builds for major milestones so it's less often for you? > > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2020, 9:57 am Dirk Hohndel via subsurface, > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I'm considering moving our default Windows build to 64bit - it's 2020 after > all. > Some studying of the information I can get from the people who have enabled > the update > notifications tells me that we still have at least 50 users running Windows > on actual 32bit > hardware - so below 1% of our Windows user base (but the number could be > higher if a > lot of 32bit Windows users have disabled the update check). > > Either way, I think that's too many to completely drop having a 32bit binary, > but it certainly > seems to make it reasonable to switch to 64bit by default. > > One thing that is triggering this is that I am having problems getting a > working libmtp > build on a 32bit MXE build. It's entirely possible that that's simply my own > fault, but > oddly the moment I tried a 64bit build it worked... > Of course we only need libmtp (so far) for the brand new Garmin Descent > Mk2/Mk2i, > and the likely overlap between people with a $1200+ brand new dive computer > and > a 32bit Windows machine is... small. > > Curious to hear people's thoughts. > > /D > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface > <http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface>
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