[GRASS-dev] [QGIS-Developer] Phasing out 32-bit support in QGIS for windows

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

fyi

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2020-October/062398.html

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Dear community,

I hope you are doing well in these special times.

As you probably know, building and packaging QGIS for windows is connected
with a bigger workload than all other platforms. Especially when updating
the complete dependencies stack (Qt, GDAL, GEOS, psql,...), this becomes a
mammoth task that Jurgen takes care of. Now double the architectures, and
he gets double the fun...


Based on the user survey, discussions with key developer/users and trend
observations, we decided to phase out 32-bit support on Windows.


tl;dr QGIS will drop 32-bit support on Windows after the QGIS 3.16 release
when we update our Qt dependencies to Qt 5.15.

The Plan

QGIS will drop 32-bit Windows support in the next few months. QGIS 3.16 LTR
will still be available for 32-bit systems. 32-bit support will be dropped
during the process of updating Qt to version 5.15. Due to the complexity of
the involved tasks, there is no fixed date for when this update will happen.
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AFAIR I've raised the same question for our winGRASS 32bit binaries in the
beginning of this year. :-)

so it may be a good chance to do the same announcement in our channels that
winGRASS 32bit binaries will phase out in the next couple of months.

any opinions?



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best regards
Helmut
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