[7693] in Release_7.7_team
Re: 32-bit apps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Jan 4 18:06:08 2012
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
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On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 21:49 -0500, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> Can someone remind me what the 32-bit-only programs we've encountered so
> far have been? (this is in the context of a linerva upgrade to 64-bit in
> ~3 weeks)
>
Well, a situation just came up a couple of weeks ago where a student
ybirdja needed to install a Matlab add-on called FluidProp that only
comes with 32 bit libs (and won't work on 64 bit machines). It installs
in your home dir, not in the locker, so it doesn't affect anyone else
that I know of. I told him to try linerva and I think it worked there...
The other case I can recall is that the Maple "traditional" graphical
interface ("add maple; maple" launches it) is only available for 32 bit
machines. I have no idea if anyone would care if there weren't any more
machines to run it on...
Alex
