= !MapGuide RFC 166 - Drop 32-bit builds for Windows =

This page contains a change request (RFC) for the !MapGuide Open Source project.
More !MapGuide RFCs can be found on the [wiki:MapGuideRfcs RFCs] page.

== Status ==

||RFC Template Version||(1.0)||
||Submission Date||9 Feb 2018||
||Last Modified||17 Feb 2018||
||Author||Jackie Ng||
||RFC Status||adopted||
||Implementation Status||pending||
||Proposed Milestone||4.0||
||Assigned PSC guide(s)||(when determined)||
||'''Voting History'''||(vote date)||
||+1||Jackie,Haris,Martin,Gordon,Trevor,Crispin,Reno||
||+0||||
||-0||||
||-1||||
||no vote||||

== Overview ==

This RFC proposes to drop 32-bit builds for Windows for the next major release of MapGuide Open Source.

== Motivation ==

Most computers today run on 64-bit operating systems. All Windows Servers today (that one would deploy MapGuide into a production windows environment) are only available in 64-bit only.

Given these factors, there is very little reason to keep releasing builds of MapGuide Open Source for 32-bit windows.

== Proposed Solution ==

For MapGuide Open Source 3.3, we will only release an installer and InstantSetup bundle for 64-bit Windows only.

We will remove all related 32-bit installation artifacts from the windows installer project.

== Implications ==

This only affects the Windows builds. For Linux, we will still produce 32-bit and 64-bit releases as MapGuide on 64-bit Linux still needs more battle testing before we at a level of confidence where we can drop 32-bit releases for Linux as well.

We will still produce 32-bit windows releases for any future MapGuide Open Source 3.1.x releases

== Test Plan ==

N/A

== Funding / Resources ==

Community