Windows Installers and 32/64 bit

Rod Widdowson rdw at steadingsoftware.com
Fri Sep 26 04:27:32 EDT 2014


> Given that Windows is 64-bit only now, is it worth considering just
> supporting this for 64-bit Java? 

Tempting.  For now I am just building two.  I guess we could only ship 64
bits and see what happens.  I'll note in passing that as for some time ago
the 32 bit virtualization was turned off on server distributions by default.

> It's meant as a constrained option for
> people anyway.

Not sure what you mean by this.  My assumption is that the MSI installer
will be the prime way of doing all windows installs, but we cannot stop
people from doing it the Unix way - and I have taken some care to make sure
that I don't break anything.  

R



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