On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:59:22AM -0400, John Ericson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, at 6:01 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > > The issue with adding new names duplicating already supported ones is that > > every piece of software that handles the old name would have to be patched > > eventually to handle the new name as well. > > Yes, that is true. I have no good answer for that. > > > Of course config.sub can provide a canonicalization of windows-cygnus into > > cygwin if it helps. > > I was worried that would close off the possibility of adding them as normal > forms later, but maybe it's better to just do it, if otherwise we wouldn't > support it at all.
I wouldn't say that would help adding them later, but that certainly wouldn't block them either, so I suggest adding an alias as it seems to be the best thing we can currently do. -- ldv
