Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] >> Subject: Re: Hello >> >> I understand that, but how would a newbie understand this ? > > Read the mailing list? > >> I didn't know that. But who (other than an expert) would >> know that, looking at those links alone ? > > Actually, Intel seems to have deliberately added to the confusion, since they > recently renamed the current 64-bit architecture to "Intel 64" (even though > AMD invented it). This is exceedingly close to their older, Really Bad Idea > architecture IA64, aka Itanium. Other synonyms for AMD64 include x86-64 (the > original AMD name for it), x64, EM64T, and IA32e (the latter two names are > from Intel). > > Who could possibly be confused? :-( > >> I posted another message a couple of days ago that >> asked why these 64-bit versions of tomcat.exe and >> tomcatw.exe were not just included in the zip version. >> Any idea of the reason ? > > I'm not privy to the thought processes behind the packaging of the .exe and > .zip downloads, but I don't like it, whatever it was. I think all bits and > pieces should be in all the packages. The .exe installer could be made smart > enough to detect the platform and JVM it's running on, and choose the 32- or > 64-bit service wrapper as appropriate. The service.bat script would probably > have to use a command line option to select 32- or 64-bit, but that's way > better than the current state of affairs.
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