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Etienne Leblois

Dear all,

I do not see why win32 lazarus should be the default on a win64 platform.

The most suitable build to the platform were one works must be the default.

Taking the best out of each particular platform is an implicit in the promise :

Write once ... compile everywhere

The allocatable memory is an improovement in win64 over win 32 (and linux64 over linux32)

Regards,

Etienne.

Message: 8 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:17:03 +0100 From: Kostas Michalopoulos Subject: Re: [Lazarus] newbie

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IMO since most people wont care about 64bit executables, it is better to only give that [64bit] download as an alternative option in 64bit Windows systems, not as the default (and only) option.

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Sven Barth
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Etienne Leblois wrote 14 lines
Dear all, I do not see why win32 lazarus should be the default on a win64 platform. The most suitable build to the platform were one works must be the default. Taking the best out of each particular platform is an implicit in the promise : Write once ... compile everywhere The allocatable memory is an improovement in win64 over win 32 (and linux64 over linux32)

With Lazarus 1.2 there seems to be a i386 add-in installer for Win64 so that one can develop 32-Bit Windows applications as well, so this seems to be less of a problem indeed. Nevertheless the 2.6 series of the 64-bit compiler still has problems regarding exceptions in non-FPC binaries that were only solved in 2.7.1, so in this regard it is definitely more problematic to use the 64-bit version of Lazarus.

Regards,
Sven

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