Re: new port

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:44:58PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 
> > Previously A Mennucc1 wrote:
> > > the proposed name is  'Debian GNU/win'
> > 
> > At the very least that should be win32.
> 
> While thinking about it: since The Hurd is called hurd-i386 in the
> archive, 

I am not too happy about that.  It should have been i386-gnu.
Using canonicalized GNU system types seems to be reasonable to me
(rather than having our own convoluted naming scheme).  However,
getting rid of that scheme altogether is even better ;)

Thanks,
Marcus