Re: For the Abolishment of "Ports"
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 03:01:14PM +0200, Inaky Perez Gonzalez wrote:
> >>>>> "Juergen" == Juergen A Erhard <jae@ilk.de> writes:
>
> Juergen> I'm not sure how to do this, but I'd love it if we were to
> Juergen> remove all mentions of "Ports" from Debian (both on
> Juergen> www.debian.org and in the various documents).
>
> Juergen> I'd propose replacing it with "Platforms" or maybe
> Juergen> "Architectures" (Platforms is more generally known, I
> Juergen> think... especially to non-CS folk).
>
> I agree to that. 'ports' may be seen (and even sounds to me)
> as the other platforms not being as importantly considered as the
> ix86.
I usually stay away from this type of "politically correct" mumbo jumbo,
but I agree here. Most of the software isn't really ported anymore anyway,
it's just recompiled.
Ben
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