Allow tagging of channels with CPU architecture (x86 vs x64)

[waltdestler]

I noticed that the butler documentation says "Limits: there is no way to tag channels with architecture (32-bit vs 64-bit) yet." (I looked for a Github issue for this but didn't see one, so apologies if it already exists or I'm posting in the wrong place.)

The inability to upload different builds for 32-bit and 64-bit OS's is an issue blocking my game from using Butler. My game has separate 32-bit and 64-bit builds because the 64-bit version has better performance (and will probably be the only version to support multiplayer), but I still want to support those players running 32-bit OS's. (Sadly still pretty common these days.)

Currently I'm using Inno Setup to handle installation of the correct files, so this isn't a critical issue for me, but I know you'd prefer people to use Butler, so I figured I should let you know that this issue is blocking me from switching to Butler.

[fasterthanlime]

So, the docs are right in the sense that there's no specific architecture tag in the backend - so it's not really a butler limitation, more like an itch.io limitation.

However, whether or not you use butler, the itch.io app will attempt to pick the right upload based on the upload's name: https://github.com/itchio/itch/blob/000107e772d24da2c2e17b20d2b4d4429d4dbb22/src/reactors/downloads/find-uploads.ts#L170 - so if you use butler, and you upload both windows-32 and windows-64, it should do the right thing still.

The plan for the future is for 32 and 64 in the channel name to set an architecture column in the database. Right now it's string-based, which is not as solid, but still better than nothing.

To summarize, nothing's stopping you from using butler right now - and you're right, I'd prefer if you use it over InnoSetup!

[waltdestler]

Ah, good to know, thanks!

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 3:51 AM Amos Wenger [email protected] wrote:

So, the docs are right in the sense that there's no specific architecture tag in the backend - so it's not really a butler limitation, more like an itch.io limitation.

However, whether or not you use butler, the itch.io app will attempt to pick the right upload based on the upload's name: https://github.com/itchio/itch/blob/000107e772d24da2c2e17b20d2b4d4429d4dbb22/src/reactors/downloads/find-uploads.ts#L170

• so if you use butler, and you upload both windows-32 and windows-64, it should do the right thing still.

The plan for the future is for 32 and 64 in the channel name to set an architecture column in the database. Right now it's string-based, which is not as solid, but still better than nothing.

To summarize, nothing's stopping you from using butler right now - and you're right, I'd prefer if you use it over InnoSetup!

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