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The Python thing as I understand it, is that sometimes package foo depends on package bar, and they must be of the same architecture, and sometimes not. Specifically inproc "plugins" require matching architecture, but if I just run an executable, architecture doesn't usually have to match.<BR>
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OpenBSD sets an interesting counterexample -- no biarch/multiarch, just one architecture, "same as it ever was", "no additional complexity", "everything is built from source anyway".<BR>
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- Jay<BR><BR> <BR>> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:15:09 -0400<BR>> From: hendrik@topoi.pooq.com<BR>> To: m3devel@elegosoft.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] multiarch<BR>> <BR>> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 07:12:54PM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > The stimulus for this work seems to be having 32-bit and 64-bit programs <BR>> > coexist on the same AMD-64 system. But it also deals with questions <BR>> > like MIPS systems having at least three different ABIs.<BR>> <BR>> They're also considering interpreters like Python to be architectures to <BR>> be supported.<BR>> <BR>> -- hendrik<BR></body>
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