Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes"):
> Co-installability of interpreters is generally not planed and would
> have to be made as custom solutions, i.e. place the interpreter in
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/ and provide /usr/bin/perl as
> alternative.

I think it's important to distinguish between (a) coinstallability of
interpreter executables for use in #!, or explicit invocation and
(b) coinstallability of the interpreter code as a library which can be
embedded in other applications.

So for example, you are saying that coinstalling i386 and amd64
versions of tclsh (which is normally found in /usr/bin) is not
generally planned.  But coinstalling i386 and amd64 versions of
libtcl.so _is_ intended and supported by multiarch, and presumably
also of tcl extensions.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

> Anyway, all of this has to wait till after wheezy. So get that out
> first.

Right.  Thanks for the explanation, anyway.

Ian.