On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:56:38AM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 08:05:17PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > > Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > > > I don't understand how installers work for 32-bit vs 64-bit. Normally > > > does our Windows installer contain both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries? Or > > > we just release 32-bit and 64-bit systems are fine with it? Same for > > > Mac? > > > > So far we have never released any 64bit windows binary. This is fine, since > > 64bit windows can execute 32bit binaries, and nobody complained yet about > > LyX hitting the 32bit memory limit (around 3.5 GB on windows). I would not > > switch to 64bit at this time, since this can introduce subtle bugs > > (unfortunately the 64 C++ memory model differs on linux and windows, e.g. > > long is 64bit on linux but 32bit on windows, so the fact that we have > > working 64bit linux builds does not guarantee us working windows 64bit > > builds). > > I see. Thanks for the explanation. I agree we should not switch now. > > Scott
Another question for Uwe. Can you still reproduce these two tickets? http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9892 http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9900 That is part of the reason why I am curious about Qt 5.6.0beta1. Maybe it makes those issues go away. Scott
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