On 01/20/2015 10:38 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 01/20/2015 10:52 AM, Temlakos wrote:
Does this mean Skype will no longer be available in this platform?
No. There hasn't been a proposal to remove 32 bit support from the 64
bit release. The proposal, which is still hypothetical, would be to
make the 32 bit platform (the release with a 32 bit kernel, and all i686
packages) to a secondary release from its current status as a primary.
As I said before, this proposal is silly non-sense. It simply is not
workable and non-feasable.
Like other secondary archs, it would still be available. The change
would primarily reflect the reality that the 32 bit release is mostly
still available because it works, and not because there are people
actively working on it.
This perception is only partially correct.
The i386 "just works" until now, because it's a primary arch, which
means people are taking care about build-time issues and integrational
issues (multiarch/multilib), as a by-product of the regular
build-process. At the very moment you drop that, this advantage will get
lost and integration of i386 will require additional effort and
gradually rot.
Ralf
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