On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:08 PM, David Empson <demp...@emptech.co.nz> wrote:
> > > On 10/08/2016, at 3:30 PM, Rousselot, Richard A <Richard.A.Rousselot@ > centurylink.com> wrote: > > > > As I said, I am not a software engineer. I could spend a few hours > figuring this out and be fine but it will be painful for me. > > > > I see no downsides in a 64-bit CLI. The last 32-bit Intel CPU was the > PIII in 2004, no supported Windows OS requires 32-bit CPUs, the file size > may be marginally bigger but who cares on a PC. The 64-bit version will, I > assume, happily work on DBs created in the 32-bit version. And for those > that need 32-bit for their applications and drivers still have access to > the 32-bit DLL. What am I missing? Are windows command line tools 32-bit > only? > > A 32-bit installation of Windows cannot run 64-bit executables (ignoring > VM solutions). > > Because of the large installed base of 32-bit Windows, the Windows command > line tools for SQLite needs to be available as 32-bit versions. If 64-bit > versions were provided, they would need to be in addition to the 32-bit > versions. > > There are an awful lot of 32-bit installations of Windows. This includes a > lot of 32-bit installations of Windows on 64-bit processors, which exist > for many reasons including defaults offered by the manufacturer, lack of > 64-bit drivers, corporate policy decisions, reduced memory footprint in > limited machines, or the user requiring 32-bit Windows in order to be able > to run legacy 16-bit software (again, ignoring VM solutions). > > If you're going that way; Android just pulled x86 support for their dev tools. Turns out noone in QA had a 32 bit computer; and when they posted a message about it there wasn't a lot of 'no wait! I have x86!' actually not one reply; just me saying 'ya, I can see most development machines are 64 bit; although; you shuold provide a patch now; but retooling the QA dept for 10% of the market doesn't really make sense.... see their numbers aren't 90% 32 bit, but rather 90% 64 bit, so really it shuld be the 64 bit that's provided, and MAYBE the 32 bit in addition to it. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
