mamba 32bit binaries for Windows

[kadykov]

Thank you for the great package manager! I always enjoy working with it, especially when I need to recreate a complex environment, mamba does it in tens of seconds, while conda in tens of minutes (if it is not stuck)...

However, from time to time I need to use 32bit Python, for example, to connect to some proprietary 32-bit libraries, and I have to switch back to miniconda instead of mamba because there is no 32bit version of mamba distribution on Windows.

Is it possible to distribute a 32-bit version of 'mamba' for Windows alongside the 64-bit?

[jaimergp]

I think you can create 32-bit environments from a regular mambaforge installation. The trick is to use export CONDA_SUBDIR=win-32 before you run mamba env create or similar. I don't know how the availability of packages for win-32 is though because it has been deprecated for a while.