Re: Ports disappeared from www.debian.org?
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:43:38PM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote:
> * James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org> [011213 18:27]:
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:35:06PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > The term 'Ports' itself is in effect an i386-ism. Supported
> > > Architectures is much more descriptive to non-developer types.
> >
> > As always there are competing goals. Keeping the string short is one of
> > them.
>
> What about Architectures? Is this too long?
>
The problem with this term is that it is generally used to denote
different hardware and thus doesn't do justice to the port to the hurd.
Frankly, I don't believe any word will be acceptable to all and I'd
stick with Ports. After all, every release is a port of Debian -
including x86 if we want to state it that way.
--
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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