On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:43, Hans Hagen wrote:
Yue Wang wrote:
Did I miss something here?
so, in the minimals, will we have an extra texmf-...-64 for osx then?
i agree with mojca that we should not mess around too much with binaries in this tex-live-freeze stage
1.) Yue Wang says that the 64-bit binary is bigger, slower and consumes more memory 2.) If we start supporting 64-bit intel, we could equally think about 64-bit PPC 3.) TeX Live has no 64-bit support yet I guess (one might want to ask Dick/Richard Koch) 4.) Maybe just want what differences Snow Leopard will bring 5.) uname shows i386 as platform; in order to figure out that Mac is 64-bit one needs to issue some weird mac-specific command (both in command-line and in mtx[something]); the idea is probably to provide "fat" binaries, but then the question: should fat binaries now contain ppc+i386+x86_64 or just a subset of them? (2) is not to be taken seriously, but as long as (1) is true I see no reason to provide 64-bit binaries at this moment. But definitely we need to consider that at some later point. Mojca