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04-19-09, 08:04 AM   #122
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Originally Posted by Shirik View Post
Just to clarify, actually several different applications will be maintained because of one of the components being OS-specific and architecture-specific, however to the user this will be transparent -- the installer and updater will figure out which OS/architecture combination will be appropriate and install it accordingly.

To the user, there is only one program. However the fact that there are actually multiple ones, bugs might pop up only for one OS or architecture (this has already happened once).
Thanks Shirik, I personally would assume that, but judging from his question he is an end user, and would not care the specifics.

But you know what they say when you ASSume
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