Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #362: Simple 32 and 64 bit Registry Support

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

On 01/03/2010 5:28 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
> Damon Courtney wrote:
>>   TIP #362: SIMPLE 32 AND 64 BIT REGISTRY SUPPORT
>
> While we are past feature 'slush', I think that this change is both
> sufficiently constrained and sufficiently important that it should
> be considered for 8.6.
>
> The fact that Microsoft shipped the Access 2007 database format
> as a 32-bit-only product, stating that drivers will not be
> available for 64-bit ODBC (or higher-level data access systems that
> depend on it) has interesting implications for TDBC. We have an
> opportunity to provide some badly needed glue in the Access world,
> but that'll require some co-operation between 32-bit and 64-bit
> co-resident versions of Tcl.

+1