On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:34:09PM +0530, S h i v wrote: > On 10/25/07, Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy at sun.com> wrote: > > More specifically, will there be an integration of 64-bit expect > > libraries and binaries once the 64-bit Tcl/Tk case has delivered? > > No. Expect is used as a top level app. I am not aware of any > application that uses libexpect and *require* it to be in 64bit and do > not work otherwise (as is the case for the ARC case for 64bit Tcl/Tk).
But do we have to know of such an application before we'll ship a 64-bit version of some library? Isn't the point to enable development of 32- and 64-bit applications alike? If libexpect cannot be built as a 64-bit object that's one thing, but if it can, why not ship it? Nico --
