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<div dir="auto">I think this conversation/thread is exactly what we were hoping to see with JEP 449.</div>
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<div dir="auto">And I believe it is starting to confirm that we are ready to remove the port, moving forward.<span></span></div>
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So yes, we do want to propose a new JEP that ultimately removes <span>the port, potentially sometime between JDK 23-24.</span><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>From:</strong> Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman@oracle.com><br>
<strong>Sent:</strong> Saturday, December 9, 2023 12:26:34 a.m.<br>
<strong>To:</strong> Bruno Borges <Bruno.Borges@microsoft.com><br>
<strong>Cc:</strong> jdk-dev@openjdk.org <jdk-dev@openjdk.org><br>
<strong>Subject:</strong> [EXTERNAL] Re: Windows-x86 (32-bit) build is broken. Time to retire it?<br>
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On 08/12/2023 01:47, Bruno Borges wrote:<br>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although I guess if they’re not updating to newer Windows (and hardware), they may not be upgrading Java without 32bit
Windows support either.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Luxi Sans", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This thinking was part of the logic behind JEP 449.</span></div>
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Are you, or someone else from Microsoft, planning to propose the removal of the port as a follow on from JEP 449 ?<br>
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-Alan<br>
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