[neon] Supported Architectures WAS Re: Founding Plan

[Harald Sitter]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Aaron Honeycutt
<honeycuttaaron3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Harald is only willing to make 64bit ISO's.

This has more to do with practical implications than anything else.
For the past 5+ years or so all consumer devices sold were 64bit, and
running Plasma 5 reliably on older hardware than that is a
hit-and-miss sort of deal as the hardware will often be outright too
limited (e.g. in terms of  RAM, Plasma+Browser easily gets you >2gig)
or have problems meeting opengl requirements of kwin.
Sure it will work, it won't work as well as we expect it to work from
a quality perspective though.

Making ISOs is cheap, making builds is also mostly cheap as all you
need is a machine to build on. BUT, building things for an
architecture we do not need only slows down the overall speed of
publishing binaries (for various reasons).

All that said, if you manage to find valid reasons for why we would
want to support other architectures, we certainly can as I do have a
pretty good idea of what a multi-architecture build structure would
need to look like (Blue systems mobile CI actually builds amd64 and
armhf).

HS