On many operating systems 32 and 64 binaries can co-exist and so a name difference, or at least a filesystem difference, is required.

Best,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Yi 
Sent: Nov 12, 2005 10:53 PM
To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Naming Executables (was Re: [Cs-dev] what do we need for a release?)

Hi John,

I'm confused, as I think my first contact with 64-bit (as in data, not
as in cpu) was your windows releases some years ago, which I thought
was labelled csound64.  (I could mistaken on this.)  I consider the
distinction between 32bit and 64bit cpu's to be something more akin to
platform differences and don't think they would require a name
difference in the binary but perhaps for the package name. (i.e.
csound-64.exe for a windows installer that installs a float and double
version of csound labelled csound and csound64).  I think using names
like csoundf and csoundd seems awkward and without precedent; I
understand that that is perhaps a little clearer technically for
naming, but would prefer to use the 64 and non-64 nomenclature as that
seems more easily understood by non-programmers using csound and also
seems already in use.

steven


On 11/10/05, jpff@codemist.co.uk  wrote:
> Re names, I think of 64 as labelling the 64bit binaries, rather than
> the 64bit data.  I have been using f for floats and d for doubles.
> ==John ffitch
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