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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?
On Jun 29 04:11, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 09:31 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Where are they in the first place? On Linux, there are many binary-only
> > > packages available on the web, most of which are 32-bit only. I have
> > > yet to see a single one of those for Cygwin. Who provides binary
> > > packages for Cygwin except for a few of us maintainers with external
> > > repos, which could just as well support both (Ports certainly would) or
> > > even be part of the distro itself if we changed how the distro was
> > > managed.
> >
> > Customers of the Cygwin buyout license, for instance.
>
> Alright, having not ever seen them, how many other Cygwin libraries do
> those packages use besides Cygwin itself? Base? X11? GTK? Qt? It's
> hard to solve a problem without knowing its scope.
I don't know. We don't look how exactly a buyout customer uses the
Cygwin DLL. It was only an example anyway. I just think that there
shouldn't be any technical problems to mix 32 and 64 bit freely,
just as it works on Linux or, FWIW, Windows.
Corinna
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