[MacRuby-devel] stopping to build for i386

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi Eric,

On Feb 24, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote:

> 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?

It wouldn't be very easy, I'm afraid. But we can keep the code is there is a demand.

Laurent
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