I think the issue that folks are concerned about is that they have a 
package which is a combination of:
    platform-independant python/perl code
    binary loadable python/perl module (.so file)
which they cannot run on the 64-bit perl/python because they only have
a 32-bit .so file.

They seem to be ignoring the possiblity of shipping .so files for
all of the platforms they want to be able run on -- that is you could
have the ix86, the x86_64, and maybe sparc_solaris versions of the .so
with your package so that you could run it all three places...

Marc

Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
> Hi Michel
> 
> I still fail to understand what problem are you trying
> to solve here ....:
> 
> Either the application in question can be ported to
> 64 bit (so no problem ..) or not: then why to run it
> on an 64 bit system in first place ?
> 
> SL exists in both 32 and 64 bit variants ...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jarek
> 
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