On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/05/2017 11:15 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> On 01/05/2017 10:03 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >>> * Do we need to care about 32-bit GUI applications on a 64-bit system? Should we >>> decide that flatpak is the official answer for such cases? >> >> I care. What impact would this have on Wine? If users are unable to use 32-bit >> Windows apps, which are still a nice majority of apps, they'll quickly abandon >> Fedora. Eventually that majority will get switched, but I don't see it happening >> for at least 2-3 more years. > > Sorry, using the word "care" there was poorly phrased. I meant more like "are > there 32-bit GUI applications that are very important and couldn't be made to > fit this new approach?". Wine is an interesting example I had not considered. > > Are we certain that it couldn't be run from within a container, though? Possibly > via a wrapper? Teamviewer comes in an i686 only package for Fedora. So is there going to be this interim approach, and then yet another change when they're expected to use FlatPak? That's a lot of changes... And are these two approaches compatible with the other platforms they target, or are they just likely to drop the one it stops working on? I can hardly imagine Teamviewer is the only 32-bit only GUI program. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
