On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Laurent Sansonetti
<lsansonetti@apple.com> wrote:

Hi,

As of r5239 in trunk, the default build process will no longer build for

both i386 and x86_64, but just x86_64. This is an attempt at accelerating

the build process and reducing the framework objects size.

We are however not removing any i386-related code from the project, and one

will still be able to build a 32-bit version of MacRuby by passing

archs=i386 to rake. We will also consider fixing i386 bugs. But we want to

start discouraging people to target i386 hardware for MacRuby apps, for

several reasons (codebase not well tested, runtime / exception handling

differences, floating point precision loss, etc.). The i386-related code

could eventually be removed from MacRuby after 0.10.

This is not an irrevocable decision, though. If people complain we will

revert the change. But I want to give it a try.

Laurent

How hard do you imagine it would be for other developers to keep the
386 code going after 0.10?