Can people please use something a little more descriptive than "Hello"?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Thomas" <ma...@apache.org>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Hello
Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com]
Subject: Re: Hello
I understand that, but how would a newbie understand this ?
Read the mailing list?
I didn't know that. But who (other than an expert) would
know that, looking at those links alone ?
Actually, Intel seems to have deliberately added to the confusion, since
they recently renamed the current 64-bit architecture to "Intel 64" (even
though AMD invented it). This is exceedingly close to their older,
Really Bad Idea architecture IA64, aka Itanium. Other synonyms for AMD64
include x86-64 (the original AMD name for it), x64, EM64T, and IA32e (the
latter two names are from Intel).
Who could possibly be confused? :-(
I posted another message a couple of days ago that
asked why these 64-bit versions of tomcat.exe and
tomcatw.exe were not just included in the zip version.
Any idea of the reason ?
I'm not privy to the thought processes behind the packaging of the .exe
and .zip downloads, but I don't like it, whatever it was. I think all
bits and pieces should be in all the packages. The .exe installer could
be made smart enough to detect the platform and JVM it's running on, and
choose the 32- or 64-bit service wrapper as appropriate. The service.bat
script would probably have to use a command line option to select 32- or
64-bit, but that's way better than the current state of affairs.
Patches are always welcome ;)
Mark
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
