[tex-live] texlive for win64

[George N. White III]

2009/11/16 SUN Wenchang <sunwch at hotmail.com>:

> Dear  Reinhard,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Since I am not familiar with programming, I can not do that by myself.
> I thought it could be similar to compile the sources with a 64bit compiler
> as that for a 32bit one.
> Now I understand that it is not an easy thing.
>
> Anyway, I am happy to have TL2009 in a windows machine. And I express my
> sincere thanks to the developers.

For the record, Windows users have options to run TL2009 under linux.

I don't have a 64-bit Windows system, but I have seen evidence that
linux-64 works
very nicely in a Virtual Machine hosted by Win64.  If you are working
with large
documents then fragmentation of the Windows filesystem becomes an issue.  With
linux you have a number of options for filesystems better suited to
HPC workloads.
You can mount a native linux disk on a linux VM so the heavy I/O is handled
by a more suitable filesystem such as ext4 or xfs, or you can use one of the
high-performance linux filesystems on an iSCSI SAN.

> Best Regards
> Wenchang
>
>
>> From: reinhard.kotucha at web.de
>> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:03:01 +0100
>> To: sunwch at hotmail.com
>> CC: tex-live at tug.org
>> Subject: Re: [tex-live] texlive for win64
>>
>> On 16 November 2009 SUN Wenchang wrote:
>>
>> > When will a 64-bit windows version of tex executalbes appear?
>>
>> Hi Wenchang,
>> you can be happy that there are 32-bit executables for Windows at all.
>> You can't imagine how hard some people worked in order to make this
>> possible. Without Akira there wouldn't be any Windows binaries at
>> all, and without his help and patience, and Staszek's persistency,
>> it's impossible to support Windows in TeX Live.
>>
>> tlmgr and the installer (and all the stuff behind them) were written
>> from scratch. At the beginning we thought that it's possible to
>> provide elegant, efficient, maintainable, platform-independent Perl
>> code. But Si ep and Norbert (I don't have Windows and am not willing
>> to spend money for it) encountered some severe Windows bugs quite soon
>> and it took a lot of time to find out what's going on. Microsoft
>> doesn't document bugs. Windows users have to investigate themselves.
>>
>> What we have now is a conglomeratioan of workarounds, which are
>> significantly less efficient, less maintainable, and elegency of code
>> turned out to be a dream quite soon. Life could be so much easier
>> without Windows.
>>
>> Wenchang,
>> you are asking for 64-bit binaries for Windows. I don't object if
>> anybody is willing to provide and maintain them. But are you aware
>> that there is currently only ***one*** person ***worldwide*** who is
>> able to compile TeX Live on Windows?
>>
>> Every schoolboy can compile all the TeX Live binaries on a Unix
>> platform of his choice, even if he doesn't know anything about
>> computers or programming languages at all. But on Windows, everything
>> is a pain.
>>
>> Volunteers are welcome, masochists are preferred.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Reinhard
>>
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>> Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is
>> NO.
>>
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