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Dear Reinhard,<BR>
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Thanks for your reply. <BR>
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Since I am not familiar with programming, I can not do that by myself. <BR>
I thought it could be similar to compile the sources with a 64bit compiler as that for a 32bit one.<BR>
Now I understand that it is not an easy thing.<BR>
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Anyway, I am happy to have TL2009 in a windows machine. And I express my sincere thanks to the developers.<BR>
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Best Regards<BR>
Wenchang <BR>
<BR> <BR>> From: reinhard.kotucha@web.de<BR>> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:03:01 +0100<BR>> To: sunwch@hotmail.com<BR>> CC: tex-live@tug.org<BR>> Subject: Re: [tex-live] texlive for win64<BR>> <BR>> On 16 November 2009 SUN Wenchang wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > When will a 64-bit windows version of tex executalbes appear?<BR>> <BR>> Hi Wenchang,<BR>> you can be happy that there are 32-bit executables for Windows at all.<BR>> You can't imagine how hard some people worked in order to make this<BR>> possible. Without Akira there wouldn't be any Windows binaries at<BR>> all, and without his help and patience, and Staszek's persistency,<BR>> it's impossible to support Windows in TeX Live.<BR>> <BR>> tlmgr and the installer (and all the stuff behind them) were written<BR>> from scratch. At the beginning we thought that it's possible to<BR>> provide elegant, efficient, maintainable, platform-independent Perl<BR>> code. But Si
ep and Norbert (I don't have Windows and am not willing<BR>> to spend money for it) encountered some severe Windows bugs quite soon<BR>> and it took a lot of time to find out what's going on. Microsoft<BR>> doesn't document bugs. Windows users have to investigate themselves. <BR>> <BR>> What we have now is a conglomeratioan of workarounds, which are<BR>> significantly less efficient, less maintainable, and elegency of code<BR>> turned out to be a dream quite soon. Life could be so much easier<BR>> without Windows.<BR>> <BR>> Wenchang, <BR>> you are asking for 64-bit binaries for Windows. I don't object if<BR>> anybody is willing to provide and maintain them. But are you aware<BR>> that there is currently only ***one*** person ***worldwide*** who is<BR>> able to compile TeX Live on Windows?<BR>> <BR>> Every schoolboy can compile all the TeX Live binaries on a Unix<BR>> platform of his choice, even if he doesn't know anything
about<BR>> computers or programming languages at all. But on Windows, everything<BR>> is a pain.<BR>> <BR>> Volunteers are welcome, masochists are preferred.<BR>> <BR>> Regards,<BR>> Reinhard<BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112<BR>> Marschnerstr. 25<BR>> D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de<BR>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.<BR>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR> <br /><hr />嶄新的 Windows 7：找出適合您的電腦。 <a href='http://windows.microsoft.com/shop' target='_new'>深入了解。</a></body>
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