They recently discussed dropping 32-bit support for PCL on the pcl-developer's list, but I'll point out what I said to them, which is that ubuntu.com still recommends 32-bit for their desktop default download. So at least for now, I think 32-bit support should stay. On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Tully Foote wrote: >> >> Related to this it has been suggested to me that we could setup a >> bidding/kickstarter style campaign for different platform or arch support. >> If people are interested we could estimate what it would take to support >> builds on extra arch/platform combinations for the duration of a release. >> And if there is enough community support to fund the project we can turn >> on specific architectures. >> > > +1 > > >> Also we are currently building i386 and amd64, we could consider dropping >> i386 on some platforms to save resources. >> > > Looking forward, I suspect most PC users will be 64-bit, and the main > 32-bit platform will be ARM. That may be true already. Perhaps people would > favor substituting some common ARM platform for i386. > > >> Please take a look at the results of both surveys and the above proposal >> and give your feedback. >> > > +1 It's a good plan, balancing a great many divergent needs. > -- > joq > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- William Woodall ROS Development Team william@osrfoundation.org http://williamjwoodall.com/