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Are any plans to do 64 bit windows builds? My understanding is that
there might be issues with thunking from 32 bit apps to 64 bit
Windows when MAPI is involved...<br>
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- David<br>
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On 5/20/2010 6:57 AM, Mark Banner wrote:
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For quite a while now, Firefox has been doing nightly builds of
64-bit Linux. These are treated as unofficial, but happen for both
the 3.5 & 3.6 branches. Recently, they have also been spinning
up unit test builds on trunk, although they haven't yet shipped a
64-bit build as part of an alpha. Note that Linux distributions
already tend to ship 64-bit versions of Firefox and Thunderbird.<br>
<br>
gozer has been working on a 64-bit Linux build platform [1]. It is
at the stage where we have only a couple more issues to resolve,
and then it should be ready for deployment in production. The
check & xpcshell-tests all pass, the mozmill tests have
approximately the same failures as the 32-bit version (so we won't
be enabling them yet).<br>
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As some of our branches are quite old, I'm proposing that we do
the following:<br>
<ul>
<li>Thunderbird 3.0: Unit test only</li>
<ul>
<li>Thunderbird 3.0 will soon be the not-latest-major version
branch. I don't think there is any point in doing nightly
builds for 3.0 as I don't think it will actually buy us
anything - at most a few more nightly testers.<br>
</li>
<li>However, having the unit test builds will give us some
knowledge that we aren't breaking 64-bit builds which Linux
distros produce.</li>
</ul>
<li>Thunderbird 3.1: Unit test and .....?</li>
<ul>
<li>I'm on the fence here as to what to include. We're just
about to release (well hopefully in a few weeks) I'm not
sure if we also want to start producing nightly builds,
however like for the Thunderbird 3.0 branch, I think we
definitely want a unit test builder.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>Trunk: Depends, Nightly, Unit Test and Debug/Bloat builds</li>
<ul>
<li>i.e. the full set of tests and builds.</li>
<li>We still would not release the 64-bit builds, unless
Firefox started doing so as well - in general I don't think
we should release versions built on core where Firefox isn't
doing the same.</li>
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Thoughts welcome<br>
Mark.<br>
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