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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?

On 06/28/2011 12:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: 
Can *someone* tell me why this is absolutely necessary?  I have yet to
hear a single reason that wouldn't be solved by supporting parallel
installations like we did with 1.5-to-1.7.

Also, in 5 years when nobody is running 32 bit windows, will everybody still be happy with all these 64s in their paths and filenames? Coinstalled trees make sense to me, c;\cygwin and c:\cygwin64 for example. And while assumptions are being challenged, do DLLs really need to have a cyg prefix?

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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc@redhat.com

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