> Frankly, an Open Source project is not run by it's users - it's run by it's > developers. If no developers come forward to actively support 32-bit, then > the only possible outcome is for it to be dropped. If this is unacceptable to > the users, they may choose to become developers and either contribute their > expertise, or fork the project.
OpenSource project destination is not developers but users. Developers didn't code to please themselves but to provide a value and products to end users. And when you users are also Developers, Java developers, you could be confident they know what they want > Apple provide a 32/64 Universal implementation, but Oracle has only committed > to shipping a 64-bit only implementation for their proprietary product. The > OpenJDK product should be build-able for 32 or 32/64 Universal by anyone > else, and should accept contributions to it's maintenance, but if nobody is > signing up to keep forward-porting the changes - they don't have a future. All platforms supported by Oracle for Java 7 have both 32 and 64 JVM except OSX. There was a miss for OSX users community between Apple to Oracle transition., 32/64 bits support was available, they lost it, too bad. > Am I missing something here? Nothing, this question about 32/64 bits has been raised longtime ago, at time where OpenJDK 7 for OSX moved from macosx-port to jdk7u. I spend some time to see how to bring universal 32/64 bits support back, there is no interest here, end of game. I won't comment anymore this thread, I already asked Dalibor to drop my OCA and wait how I should resign officially from OpenJDK project. Cheers and long life OSS
