arch constraint default changed?

[Henning Eggers]

Although I don't know about --upload-tools, I have to agree with Gustavo here
that selecting the instance arch depending on the workstation arch is
unintuitive from a user's perspective. I would not expect that at all.

Yes, amd64 is a very sensible default. I would wish that it stayed that way.

Henning

Am 12.05.2014 19:58, schrieb Gustavo Niemeyer:
> Why isn't the default tweaked by --upload-tools itself then?  We
> should be optimizing these options for users, rather than for
> developers, and it sounds sensible to assume that the vast majority of
> users do want to deploy on amd64 rather than i386 or arm.
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Nate Finch <nate.finch at canonical.com> wrote:
>> However, the fix is slightly different than just "always choose amd64".
>> Instead, we always choose the same architecture as the client machine, that
>> way if the user uses --upload-tools, the tools will actually work on the
>> cloud machine.
>>
>> This means that if you're running i386, you would still need --arch amd64 to
>> get amd64 machines in the cloud.
>>