On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 3:07 PM Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> wrote:
> On 16/11/2020 12:43, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 6:36 AM Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> > wrote: > >> On 16/11/2020 12:27, Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 5:44 AM Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Note that the 32-bit RPM package we provide is built on Fedora 30 >>> without issues. >>> >> >> Note that Fedora 30 is EOL and Fedora 31 will go EOL in the near future >> now that Fedora 33 is released :) >> >> Thanks, >> Richard >> KF5OIM >> >> Hi Richard, >> >> on 32-bit machines? >> > > While Fedora doesn't build official 32bit installations anymore, I don't > believe there's been anything removed from the distro that would prevent > end users from producing 32bit binaries (32bit libraries are still > produced). > > I'm not sure how you're producing the RPMs but the recommended method of > using mock still has chroots for i386 in current Rawhide/f33. > > Thanks, > Richard > > Hi Richard, > > that would be alright for fully statically linked applications, but > there's not much point for applications that are going to be run on Fedora > 30 32-bit systems using dynamic linking to other packages. It's easier to > keep a Fedora 30 32-bit system going to build on, at least until some > package requirement forces us to keep an alternate version of the sources, > at that point we would probably drop support. We already advertise our > Intel Linux WSJT-X 32-bit support as deprecated. > Yes, I think 32bit operating systems days are numbered. I know a lot of people don't know or even think about this, but from a packager/contributor point of view, the Fedora project is several times smaller than the Debian (and derivatives) ecosphere. Sometimes hard (and unpopular) decisions have to be made. I probably maintain over half the ham radio stack in Fedora by myself and around 150 packages total between Fedora and RPM Fusion. Thanks, Richard KF5OIM
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