A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 17, 2011, at 07:29, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Right, I just meant that the supported CPU itself is only x86_64.
> There's still i386 support, not to worry. Just no PowerPC/Rosetta.
> 
> But if building a binary for a regular program, there is no need
> for a i386 version unless there are some legacy requirements*...
> 
> * whether those are Carbon or Win32 or whatever needs 32-bit now.

And we do currently have over 120 ports with such legacy requirements that can only build 32-bit.