Re: Octave 5.2.0 release

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 1/17/20 12:26 PM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> 
> side question: now that w32 is fading into antiquity, what are the
> drawbacks to having w64-64 just become the default build for w64?
>  

I think there are some uController users on Raspberry Pis and alike, who
would be pretty sad, if Octave dropped 32-bit support.  But true, for MS
Windows desktops, 32-bit users might not be dominant these days.

The reason for w64-64 not to be default is as far as I remember that
those libraries OpenBLAS, as well as SuiteSparse, don't use 64-bit
indices by default.  We didn't want to be the first ones to find all
their indexing problems with a "stable" Octave ;-)

Kai