[Live-demo] OSGeo live DVD (6.0)

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

On 13 September 2012 00:06, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 10:49 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>
>> On 13/09/2012 2:21 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12-09-12 09:07 AM, Dave Postles wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I wondered if there is or will be a 64-bit version.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dave Postles
>>
>>
>> Dave,
>> We don't currently build a 64 bit version of OSGeo-Live, but it would be
>> possible to do so if you (or someone else) is sufficiently motivated to run
>> through the build process again.
>>
>> Do you have a strong need for a 64 bit version?
>>
>> I'm CCing the OSGeo-Live email list, which includes Angelos and Alex who
>> have been creating our builds of late.
>>
> Hi,
>
> Actually automation achieved in building 6.0 can easily lead us to include
> 64bit builds. All deb packages from official repositories support this
> already. Java and Python projects are almost independent of arch. I wonder
> if non packaged applications support 64bit builds (like liblas, rasdaman
> etc).
>
> I would not be surprised if we could already build a 64bit version
> successfully without changes...
>
> Angelos
>

gvSIG doesn't work on a 64bit JVM because of the native libraries
dependencies, at this time the project doesn't have resources to
maintain them (and do the full release/testing cycle) even there have
been some good results.


-- 
Jorge Sanz
http://es.osgeo.org