Re: Port Name: A Vote

["Steven L. Johnson" <stjohnso@cunningsystems.com>]

marc.miller@amd.com wrote:

> Our concern is that by choosing AMD64 as the port name, it could forfeit its compliance with the x86-64 LSB.
At first glance that seems unlikely, especially since the latest docs 
call the
architecture AMD64, not x86-64.  I refer to LSB-Core-AMD64.  I don't
understand how using the same name for the Debian arch conflicts.
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/specs.php

Perhaps you could state your concern more specifically.

And not meaning to muddy the waters further, if x86_64 is the preferred 
branding and
if special characters used as separators are impractical in architecture 
names, then I
don't see why the reasonable alternates wouldn't include replacing the 
"_" with either
nothing (x8664)  or some other acceptable alphanumeric (x86x64).  Still 
it isn't
obvious to me whether the most acceptable of those would be better than 
amd64.

-Steve