Po Lu wrote:
People, the nature and widespread use of config.* precludes any efforts aimed at ``rethinking'' the tuples they accept and generate. If you want your own format, then by all means, proceed with your own project. But please leave config.* in peace.
I will say right now that backwards compatibility, specifically that existing tuples remain unchanged as much as possible (blatantly incorrect tuples such as *-windows-gnu for MinGW excepted) is an absolute requirement here.
Existing code expects the existing strings. Those must be preserved. -- Jacob
