On Monday 29 August 2005 00:46, Justin B Rye wrote: > Package: xara-gtk > Version: 1.0.9 > Severity: wishlist > > At present xara-gtk and xara-gtk-byte have precisely identical > package Descriptions, right down to both ending with "This is the > GTK2 GUI version." I see no recognition of the difference within > the packages, either.
Hello Justin, You are right, the descriptions were not clear enough as they should be. I just fixed'em in svn and probably the new one will be uploaded soon. > Presumably there's some technical difference between their build > options; but for someone who isn't an Ocaml programmer it's far from > obvious what the pros and cons of the alternative versions might be. > In an ideal world, that's where the Description would come in. To answer your question: the -byte suffixed versions are obviously the bytecode ones (as opposide to native compiled ones) which are interpreted and hence slower than the native ones. We have native and bytecode versions on alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 powerpc sparc architectures and for the rest just the bytecode ones. As I see you are using x86 hence you want ara and/or xara-gtk packages since they run faster that their bytecode counterparts. Thanks for pointing this out. Almost there ... into the ideal world ;-) -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
