Comment 3 for bug 1418274

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rickmastfan67 (rickmastfan67) wrote :

You should be allowed to install both the 32bit and 64bit MSI's for Inkscape if you want to. Look at how Java and Adobe flash installers work.

You need both versions of Java if you run IE and want to be able to use it correctly. Sure, they only offer EXE files (as far as I can tell), but still, they label the names differently once they are installed. The 32bit version of Java is 'Java 7 Update 75', while the 64bit name once installed is 'Java 7 Update 75 (64bit)'. At least that allows you to know where version you want to uninstall if needed to update it.

Same think goes with Flash. They do offer MSI's that install both the 32bit and 64bit flavors of Flash. That's because IE needs both versions to run properly since sometimes it runs in pure 64bit, and other times in 32bit mode depending on what other plugins are running in the background. Meanwhile, Firefox (on Windows) only can take advantage of the 32bit installed version from the MSI that Adobe offers for it.

I wish Ghostscript did the same thing as Java. Would make it 10x easier to know which version is which when I need to uninstall a version to figure out a bug.

So, I think that the name for the 64bit version of Inkscape needs to have the '(64-bit)' part added to it ["Inkscape 0.91 (64-bit)"] so people know which version they have installed in the 'Uninstall or change a program' window. The 64-bit EXE should also name Inkscape 64bit the same way.