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Re: MSYS2 Dropping 32-bit support

 

On 8/3/20 9:19 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
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> 
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 10:48 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm not ready to drop 32 bit builds for V6.  I still think there are
>     enough 32-bit users to warrant supporting it for one more release.  It's
>     something we can discuss for V7.
> 
> 
> If we keep 32 bit builds on mingw2, does that mean that we freeze all
> packages at their current versions?  It might be problematic to keep
> different package versions for different architectures.

I'm assuming you mean dependency packages so yes we would continue to
build 32 bit windows versions using the current package versions.  If
someone figures out how to get wxPhoenix to build, then we could bump to
wxWidgets 3.1.x and Python 3.x.

> 
> Obviously, if we successfully move to MSVC, this question is moot.
> 
> -Seth
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