[MacRuby-devel] stopping to build for i386

[Eric Christopherson]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Laurent Sansonetti
<lsansonetti at 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?