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Re: Poll: Intel 32bit (i686) builds (linux and/or windows)

Posted by Sven Gothel on Jan 04, 2020; 5:28pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Poll-Intel-32bit-i686-builds-linux-and-or-windows-tp4040230p4040237.html

Debian Popularity Contest <https://popcon.debian.org/>'s
"Statistics per Debian architectures - submissions per arch" shows

- amd64 174836
- i386   20318
- armhf    585
- armel    407
- powerpc  133
- arm64     98

This surely justifies a linux-x86 (i386) build.

Thanks to Xerxes, who put my nose to this dataset.

~Sven

On 1/4/20 1:02 AM, Sven Gothel [via jogamp] wrote:

> Thank you Emmanuel for replying.
>
> I assume your 32bit users were mostly using windows-x86?
>
> Thinking more about linux-x86, it might be still an important
> platform at least for embedded devices hmm.
>
> I will go for a compromise here:
>
> - Re-enabling linux-x86 and windows-x86 builds and aggregation,
>   but skipping the time and energy consuming unit tests.
>
> - The unit tests on 32bit went less reliable on JOGL
>   running on actual 64bit machines and OS due to GL driver glitches.
>
> - I recommend to run 64bit on 64bit machines
>
> This shall be a good compromise and from time to time
> I could enable unit testing (a flag in jenkins) on these machines.
>
> All 32bit users should earmark this situation and
> maybe also perform the unit tests on their target platform etc.
>
> I would like to read more use cases here, maybe we get more
> communication when everybody is back :)
>
> Cheers, Sven
>
> On 1/3/20 12:30 AM, Manu [via jogamp] wrote:
>
>> Thanks to the update system programmed in Sweet Home 3D, I can check whether
>> its users run the 32 or 64 bit version of the program. And just for yesterday,
>> I can tell you that almost 10000 users were using the 32 bit version of that
>> program.
>> Hope that this will be a good enough reason to maintain the 32 bit version of
>> JOGL (even if some users of the 32 bit version might be able to able to run
>> the 64 bit version too if their system permits it).
>>
>> Many thanks for your efforts and happy new year 2020!
>> Emmanuel Puybaret
>>