From: drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 04:45 , Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > > No. Win32 means it's meant for 32 bit Microsoft Windows systems : > > Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2k, WinXP, ... > > > > While there might be some modules whose name starts with > > Win32 that work on other OSes, it's very unlikely. And not > > recomended. > > > > Jenda > > thanks, that had been my working assumption - but it's > this problem of sorting out which parts of what goes > into a 'windows system' deal with the GUI, the standard > construct of a kernel - as would be used in other OS's - > and all of that... And the general issues in that space > that are less clear to me about how they organize their > coding solutions.
I do not think I understand what you mean. > Given that Sun and Others have transitional API's from > the 32-bit to 64-bit - most of which is transparent if > you started with portable underlying code - unlike the > recent problem proposed here where the 'make' of a > FOO::BAR module fails if perl is built for 64 bit.... > > So will there be a Win64??? Never say never ... so maybe yes, but I'd think that most of the Win32 modules will just be updated (if necessary) to work fine with 64-bit version of Windows and keep the name. Jenda =========== [EMAIL PROTECTED] == http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ========== There is a reason for living. There must be. I've seen it somewhere. It's just that in the mess on my table ... and in my brain I can't find it. --- me -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
