How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?

[Jerry Haltom]

Other 64bit applications on your 64bit system link to Firefox,
specifically the Gecko engine. Epiphany does. Yelp does. Anything with
an embedded browser that uses Gecko does. If a 32bit Firefox is
provided, either these apps must also be 32 bit, or a 64bit Firefox has
to be provided along side of it.

There are issues with both approaches. My feeling is that the
appropriate solution is to allow parallel installs of 32bit and 64bit
Gecko libraries, allowing applications to link against either, but
allowing the user to execute the 32 bit version. Basically, this is what
the multi-arch proposal is all about. And dpkg/apt has to cope with
this.

I'm not volunteering to implement it. And nobody else has. Hence, it
won't be done until somebody does it. ;)

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 16:09 -0500, Kilz _ wrote:
> >It does work, it just doesn't include support for other architectures.
> >Do you consider the lack of a qemu-wrapped firefox for PowerPC a bug
> >making the platform unusable?  If you need support for i386 binaries,
> >run an i386 distribution.
> >
> 
> The difference is if I take a 32bit binary firefox and place it in a 64bit 
> Ubuntu . It works. This isnt adding new applications to make it run. Dont BS 
> me. But getting Newbie users to do it is another story. Ubuntu is suposed to 
> make it easy for new users switching over. Are you telling me its just to 
> difficult to repackage it to make it work easier for newbies?
> 
> 
> >We have a fully-working browser on amd64.  It works just fine for me and
> >I use it for hours every day.  Openoffice.org was not available for
> >amd64 until recently (or had very serious stability problems).  I was
> >not happy about how we did the Openoffice.org packaging -- it was a hack
> >and I am happy that it is gone.  If you wish to help make 32 bit
> >applications work on amd64, I suggest you read up on my multiarch papers
> >   as well as the documents available from
> >http://multiarch.alioth.debian.org/ and implement the suggestions there.
> >
> 
> There again we dont have to . It already dose.
> 
> >Get real.
> >
> >- tfheen
> 
> I am, but the more I read the more I see planned to take away what already 
> works. Once 64bit OpenOffice is in ia32 packages go away. What happens to 
> all the dapper users who are using it because they can force in 32bit apps?  
> After that will users be even able to copy in a 32bit firefox?
> You can say whatever you want, But I see less for 64bit in the future and 
> more eye candy.
> 
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