Re: Resurrect discussion: Mixing 32 and 64 bit distro

[Earnie Boyd <earnie at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>
> I slept a bit bad tonight.
>
> As you may or may not remember, we had a discussion about how to go
> forward with a 64 bit distro in 2011.
>
> In this discussion I held vehemently to the view that we have to create
> the 64 bit distro in a way which allows to mix Cygwin 64 and 32 bit
> applications freely.  My main point was that it may take a long time
> until we get all the Cygwin 32 bit packages built for 64 bit, and
> therefore have to provide a mix so that users can adopt the 64 bit
> distro early without having to drop the tools they are using.
>
> But is that really so?  I'm not so sure anymore.  Maybe that problem
> is exaggerated or overvalued.

Maybe overvalued.  Would an idea that 32bit executables use the 32bit
runtime and 64bit executables use the 64bit runtime be bad?  So for
the time being deliver both 32bit cygwin1.dll and cyg64w1.dll (I
forget what you called it) and allow the executables to use the
correct version?

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Earnie