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 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