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Re: MSYS2 Dropping 32-bit support

 

On 8/4/20 4:43 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
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> 
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 4:41 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 8/3/20 9:19 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 10:48 AM Wayne Stambaugh
>     <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>     > <mailto: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.
> 
> 
> Do you envision building 32-bit and 64-bit with different package versions?

I hope not but we may have to bite the bullet if we can't get all of the
packaging up to snuff be it msys2 or msvc builds.

> 
> -Seth
> 
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