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[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:38 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wmrowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/16/2010 9:59 AM, Garrett Serack wrote:
>> For Library packages (static and dynamic) I’m wondering if we shouldn’t
>> just put both variants in the same package—still installing the WinSxS
>> binaries appropriately, and putting the .lib files in the correct spot.
>>
>> This would actually conserve disk-space, since the x64 and x86 versions
>> of the packages could share include & doc directories, and we could use
>> symlinks for that.
>
> Don't go there.
>
> This is the source of most OS/X pain; the fact that Apple has stacked the
> single unified binaries.  Many open source include files simply don't and
> can't cope with this, and many patches that would enable this on OS/X are
> rejected out of hand because the model is broken with respect to particular
> open source projects :)

Putting both variants in one package doesn't mean both variants should
use the same include files, does it?

Olaf