[R-pkg-team] Bug#1037439: Opinions about removal of 32bit architecture for r-cran-rstan (Was: Bug#1037439: r-cran-rstan/armhf FTBFS with r-cran-bh 1.74)

[Nilesh Patra]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 05:17:38AM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> > Stan is for power users on performant
> > machines and these MCMC runs take a loooooong time.

Oh, and I forgot to address this. You are right ofcourse, and probably
not a lot of people would be interested in running rstan on 32-bit -
sure.
However pruning this off 32-bit archsn would also mean
removing a huge chunk of other R packages which transitively depend on rstan.
As far as I checked, not all of them are intensive to run, and it is
likely useful for people who use 32-bit archs in some way.
 
> I am okay with i386 in particular being dropped (there was recently a
> discussion to even drop i386 from debian), but not all 32-bit archs that
> we support. There are many packages where upstream does not own the
> same, and we still do support it on 32-bit archs in some way. The
> maintainence cost (with the patch) does not look very high to me, so I'd
> consider keeping the support for now.


-- 
Best,
Nilesh
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