[ros-users] Ubuntu 10.10 support

[Ken Conley]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Nicholas Butko <nbutko at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Along these same lines, does WG have any official or unofficial stance between 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu?
>
> Given a 64-bit processor, Is one generally considered better, or more widely used, than the other?

In ROS we use 64-bit data types in most of our common messages. 64-bit
also means that you can directly address more memory.

> I noticed in the nite package, there were only 64-bit binary libraries, for example. Does this generally cause linking errors or other weird behavior on 32-bit Ubuntu?

We just added a patch from Kei Okada so that it auto-select based on
your architecture.

 - Ken