Re: new port: and the winner is....
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:18:43PM +0200, A Mennucc1 <debian@Tonelli.sns.it> spake forth:
> I have reread dpkg-*/archtable a few times and I have
> seen that the name of the ports have been chosen, in the past,
> without following any rigorous rule; e.g,
> i386 means 'linux kernel on Intel 32 bit 386 compatible processors'
> m68k means 'linux kernel on Macintosh and atari and sun3 and amiga'
This is hardly as arbitrary as you indicate. i386 means 'linux kernel on the
i386 processor'. (i386 = an architecture, not a specific model here). m68k
means 'linux kernel on the motorola 68000 series processor'. The best
precedent for this, IMO, is hurd - hurd-i386 is the only thing based on
anything other than the Linux kernel currently in the Debian archive.
Therefore, I still believe win-i386 (or better, win32-i386) to be the way to
go. Consistency and all that.
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