2GB limit

[John Szakmeister]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Maritza Mendez <martitzam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry... Hit send accidently.  At the risk of asking a dumb question or two...
>
> 1. Martin...your note seems to suggest the problem is especial to
> Windows.  Is that right or is it really just a matter of 32 bit python
> (and pyx)?

It's definitely a matter of 32-bit python.

> 2.  Would running 64 bit python and non-compiled bzr (slow but works)
> provide a sufficient proof of principle solution?

The few times I've run into a problem, that's exactly how I solved the
problem.  It's terribly slow, but Python will internally bump the size
of the indexes, while pyx will choke.  Simply renaming the pyx
compiled _groupcompress_pyx.so (or dll) to something else so Bazaar
wouldn't pick it up was enough.  But it is terribly slow.

-John