Windows Installers and 32/64 bit

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/26/14, 4:27 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>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.

Didn't know that either. That really kind of seals it to me.

>> 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.

Perhaps that's true, but I guess my point is that I don't think we can be
all things for people that choose to try and automate their install to
that degree. We should be able to make some choices and impose constraints
just like vendors do. The people that need to violate those constraints
should be installing their own container.

-- Scott