> On Apr 21, 2015, at 7:00 AM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote: > > We officially stopped supporting 32-bit platforms about 1 year ago, and we > currently have no CI or test systems setup for this platform. The suggestions > is to make 32-bit platforms a configure time error, such that we won’t even > try to compile. For a deprecation time, the suggestion is also to add a new > configure option to 6.0.0, which will be removed at a future major release. > The new option would be e.g. > > —enable-32bit-platforms > > There’s no guarantee that this will work, but we will accept 32-bit fixes > going forward, and use the option above for those builds. Developers are not > required to assure 32-bit support going forward, and if we end up in a > situation where we can not support 32-bit again, we will remove this option. > > The Jira for this is > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-3537 > > > Unless we hear otherwise within 1 week, this will be implemented for 6.0.0.
No objections have been made to this, so we will proceed with this proposal. — Leif
