[Bitkeeper-announce] Re: bk-3.2.0 released

[Larry McVoy]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 02:15:10PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:04:36AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 11:54:20AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:32:38PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > > BK/Pro 3.2.0 has been released and is in the BK download area,
> > > > 
> > > >     http://bitmover.com/download
> > > 
> > > Any chance of a native x86-64 version? 
> > 
> > We don't have any x86-64 machines but we could get one.  I asked about this
> > a while back and people told me that there was no point, the x86 one worked
> > perfectly.  Can you tell me what having a native one would gain?  If there
> > is any gain we'll do it.
> 
>    It'll allow BK to be run on machines which have a pure 64-bit
> userspace (for example, Debian's current amd64 port), without having
> to resort to a 32-bit chroot to run the 32-bit BK binary.

OK, that's more than enough of a reason.  We'll get a native one in the next
week or so.
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com