32 Bit Windows Installer - (Possibly) Will No Longer be Available

LaFayette

I'm considering for us to stop creating the 32 bit windows installer. Creating a 32 bit installer for windows is a chore.. I don't think anyone should need it too. If anyone absolutely needs a 32 bit installer, please speak up.

I only mention 'Windows' (and not Mac or Linux) because we stopped building a 32 bit version for Mac a long time ago, and I don't think we ever created a 32 bit version for Linux. Windows is the only platform where we create both a 64 bit and a 32 bit installer.

AFAIK most consumer computers have switched over to 64 bit like a decade ago. We do see a number of 32 bit downloads, but I think that is entirely people who should be downloading the 64 bit version and are selecting the wrong version.

TheDog

@lafayette
I think thats a good idea.

Perhaps the old 32 bit versions could be put on a web page, say this one
https://triplea-game.org/download/

with TripleA 2.5.22294 and 2025-April-24 - 2.7.14989 if thats the last one?

LaFayette

It seems very weird and obvious now that the "release notes" and "old downloads" pages should be different pages. But they're not... So we do have this page: https://triplea-game.org/release_notes/

Which does have the old downloads. That looks like the right place to have an archive for the last 32 bit version that was bit. I'm on board with that (if I'm understanding correctly)

TheDog

@lafayette
If that page is to be used it needs updating as I think this is the latest 2.5 TripleA-2.5.22294

Also it is not blatantly obvious what to click to get the version download page that you want, but I got there after a couple of minutes.

So yes, that looks like a good place.

LaFayette

A quick update regarding 32 bit installers - looks like it is no longer even an option for us. Not even a choice now whether to include it or not.

Details:
I'm running some updates, and ran across our notes for how to bundle the 32 bit Java version for windows-32 bit installers: https://github.com/triplea-game/assets

Screenshot from 2025-04-29 16-02-38.png

Basically, download the 32 bit JDK from some website (https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html) and do some re-packaging stuff. That website has JDKs only up to Java 16.

So.. any next release would be on Java 17 or Java 21. It looks like a 32 bit installer is no longer even an option for us (unless someone can find a 32 bit JDK21 somewhere; I kinda suspect such a thing may not even exist now).