Windows 32 and 64 bit

[Dirk Hohndel]

And that's the crux.
At least on iOS you cannot download from a Garmin Descent - we have no way to support BLE downloads for those.
I'm trying to figure out if an Android USB download would be feasible. I doubt it, but I haven't even looked if there is any MTP initiator support on modern Android.

/D

On October 29, 2020 8:25:39 PM PDT, Richard Houser <rick at divinesymphony.net> wrote:
>The last 32-bit mainstream Intel processor was a 2002 era Pentium-4,
>right?  AMD switched earlier.
>
>> the likely overlap between people with a $1200+ brand new dive
>computer and
>a 32bit Windows machine is... small.
>
>I'm thinking the overlap is probably higher than you think.  A lot of
>people with plenty of disposable income have stopped using PCs
>entirely, switching entirely to tablets and phones.  There really
>weren't many viable options in that space back in 2002, hence a
>traditional PC.
>
>My gut tells me that these same individuals are likely using
>phones/tablets most of the time, however.  The chances of one of those
>Windows users having only a 32-bit only PC and no compatible
>phone/tablet is likely vanishingly small.  As long as that device
>works on mobile, it's probably a non-issue, provided advance notice is
>given.
>
>On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 6:57 PM Dirk Hohndel via subsurface
><subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'm considering moving our default Windows build to 64bit - it's 2020
>after all.
>> Some studying of the information I can get from the people who have
>enabled the update
>> notifications tells me that we still have at least 50 users running
>Windows on actual 32bit
>> hardware - so below 1% of our Windows user base (but the number could
>be higher if a
>> lot of 32bit Windows users have disabled the update check).
>>
>> Either way, I think that's too many to completely drop having a 32bit
>binary, but it certainly
>> seems to make it reasonable to switch to 64bit by default.
>>
>> One thing that is triggering this is that I am having problems
>getting a working libmtp
>> build on a 32bit MXE build. It's entirely possible that that's simply
>my own fault, but
>> oddly the moment I tried a 64bit build it worked...
>> Of course we only need libmtp (so far) for the brand new Garmin
>Descent Mk2/Mk2i,
>> and the likely overlap between people with a $1200+ brand new dive
>computer and
>> a 32bit Windows machine is... small.
>>
>> Curious to hear people's thoughts.
>>
>> /D
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