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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?
On Jun 27 20:13, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 17:58 -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> > Today, Cygwin DLLs all have the form cyg$SONAME.dll. In a 64-bit Cygwin,
> > 32-bit DLLs would retain this naming convention and 64-bit DLLs would be
> > named cyg64$SONAME.dll.
>
> 1) A similar naming scheme for mingw64 was already rejected.
> 2) Accomodating the "cyg" prefix is hard enough; using different naming
> schemes for x86 and x64 would be a disaster.
>
> I still don't see a pressing need for multilib in the first place.
> Linux distros do it only with a handful of libraries needed for running
> third-party binaries; that use case doesn't really apply to Cygwin, so
> why would we need it?
On my F15 desktop system I have 124 i686 packages. It sounds like a
joke compared to the 1810 x86_64 and 445 noarch packages, but it's
still not a neglectable number.
And I still think Cygwin is different due to our low participation and
organization factor. Just imagine Cygwin had as much backing as Fedora.
For me this would mean I could drop reading the cygwin and cygwin-apps
lists, because I could stick to Cygwin development alone. I didn't have
to maintain any distro packages. I wouldn't even have to create the
cygwin package because somebody else did it for me. Wow, what a dream...
Corinna
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