= !MapGuide RFC 179 - Drop 32-bit builds for Linux as well =

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||13 Feb 2020||
||Last Modified||15 Feb 2020||
||Author||Jackie Ng||
||RFC Status||adopted||
||Implementation Status||N/A||
||Proposed Milestone||4.0||
||Assigned PSC guide(s)||(when determined)||
||'''Voting History'''||(vote date)||
||+1||Jackie,Gordon,Haris,Martin||
||+0||||
||-0||||
||-1||||
||no vote||||

== Overview ==

This RFC proposes to drop 32-bit builds for Linux as well in addition to Windows (which was already adopted as part of [wiki:MapGuideRfc166 MapGuide RFC 166])

== Motivation ==

Same motivation as dropping 32-bit builds for Windows. Most computers should be running 64-bit operating systems nowadays and to maximize our limited build resources, we should only focus on producing builds of MapGuide for 64-bit Windows and Linux.

== Proposed Solution ==

We will cease making releases of MapGuide for 32-bit Linux distros that we currently target.

The author originally had reservations for following the same 64-bit only path for the Linux releases due to less verification of stability and reliability of the 64-bit linux builds compared to their 32-bit counterparts.

However, the reality is that build/developer resources for the MapGuide project are really strained and at this stage, it is more preferable to just put out the "less stable" 64-bit linux builds and fix/address whatever issues that may arise.

== Implications ==

3.1.2 will mark the last version of MapGuide where 32-bit builds exist for Windows *and* Linux. There will be no migration path for such users beyond migrating their data and application code to work on the 64-bit countepart.

== Test Plan ==

N/A

== Funding / Resources ==

Community