> On 10/08/2016, at 5:50 PM, Rousselot, Richard A > <richard.a.rousse...@centurylink.com> wrote: > > I guess it is a matter of support. Can the people using unpatched, > unsupported 32-bit windows instances just live with SQLite 3.13 (or whatever > the cutover version)? Are these 32-bit windows users really actively > updating SQLite?
You are missing an important point: it isn’t only the processor architecture, but the Windows installation architecture which matters. Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 are/were all available in 32-bit. All of them are still supported by Microsoft. There are a lot of PCs with 64-bit processors running 32-bit Windows, because that is how they were supplied or originally set up. I’m not talking ten year old computers: my work PC is a 2011 HP with a 64-bit Core i5 that was supplied with 32-bit Windows 7 (we’ve upgraded these PCs to Windows 10, but it is still 32-bit Windows 10). There will be many newer 64-bit PCs also running 32-bit Windows. Numbers will dwindle over time as PCs are replaced (or the occasional OS reinstall), but there is probably still a significant number of PCs running a supported 32-bit Windows. If the only distributed build of sqlite3.exe was 64-bit, I expect it would inconvenience a fair number of people on 32-bit Windows who use an up-to-date version of SQLite including the command line tools, but can't build it themselves. (I can build it, so wouldn’t mind if this happened.) The 32-bit build runs on 64-bit Windows, and is only a limit for those who need to do things with the command line tool that require more than 2 GB of memory. Having both 32-bit and 64-bit versions would be ideal, probably with a plan to phase out the 32-bit version, but it would mean more work for the SQLite developers in the meantime. > Can the command line tool interact with a driver? How does a 32-bit windows > user get SQLite3.exe to run on a legacy 16-bit (windows 3.1?) machine? Anything that old is not supported by SQLite 3. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
