[Slackbuilds-users] Out of sync versions for 32bit, 64bit SlackBuilds

[Christoph Willing]

Hi all,

I'm looking for suggestions/guidance/direction about how, or whether, to 
keep supporting 32bit builds for projects which have themselves ended 
that support. The case at hand for me right now is obs-studio but I 
imagine other maintainers will face similar issues in the future.

obs-studio has been held back at version 29.1.3 for nearly two years. 
 From memory, that was due to an incompatible cmake in Slackware 15.0 
although there could be other reasons too. Anyway cmake-opt takes care 
of that problem and I thought I'd try updating the SlackBuild to the 
latest version (32.1.0). That didn't work due to various dependency 
issues, however I've now found a new version (30.1.2) which builds & 
runs on x86_64.

However the 30.1.2 version that works x86_64 does not work on i*86 due 
to new dependencies which don't support i*86.

This leaves me with the choice of updating to 30.1.2 and leaving i*86 as 
UNSUPPORTED, or staying with the existing older version to support both.

Another possibility might be to keep the existing SlackBuild at its 
existing version (thus maintaining 32bit support albeit at an older 
version) and also submit a new SlackBuild, say obs-studio_30, which will 
support only x86_64.

This last option would result in versions for 32bit & 64bit being out of 
sync. Is that (un)acceptable/(ill)advised/(dis)allowed/other?


Thanks for any insights,
chris

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