On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 12:22:30 PM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > I am thinking of installing only 64-bit software on my Windows machine, > and to release only 64-bit pyinstaller builds. Here are my thoughts: > > 1. Every distribution option doubles the amount of testing required for a > release. In practice, not all options are tested. > > 2. Afaik, pyenchant is the only package requiring a 32-bit build. The tail > is wagging the dog. > > 3. True, 32-bit builds should run on 64-bit machines, so 32-bit builds > should be more portable. But I have my doubts. > > Your comments, please. >
This is the Windows analogue of the Debian GNU/Linux's Multiarch support <https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch>. One can make 32-bit builds run on 64-bit operating systems, but that's extra work. I cope with this sort of problem all the time for work, where the issue is installing 32-bit apps that need to talk to hardware - the publisher of the Windows-level driver has extra work to do to provide interfaces for 32-bit code. Corresponding challenges for Leo start with the fact that 32-bit builds run on 64-bit machines, as long as the 32-bit build is aware that on a 64-bit machine, the C:\Program Files folder is 64-bit, and that C:\Program Files (x86) is 32-bit. It is also the case that 64-bit libraries either have 32-bit duplicates that don't conflict with simultaneous use of the 64-bit cousins, or the 64-bit libraries must handle requests from 32-bit applications themselves. If you were to return to using a NSIS-based installer for Leo, you could handle the complications, but you would need to know both how Windows requires files placed and how it requires Registry entries places, and you would then need to write the NSIS-based installer to address those requirements. As I recall, you had enough headaches updating the NSIS-based installer as files were added and removed - and that was 32-bit Leo on 32-bit Windows XP, without the joys of UAC dialogs to handle permissions as forced by Vista and more recent versions of Windows. Links of interest: NSIS 32-bit 64-bit on Stack Overflow <https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=NSIS+32-bit+64-bit> Stack Overflow: writing registry value in a 64-bit system <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11150238/writing-registry-value-in-a-64-bit-system> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
