At 08:12 AM 7/24/2007 +1000, Mark Hammond wrote: >Dave writes: > > > I could be mistaken, but I believe the standard abbreviations > > for these > > architectures are 'x86_64' (intel/amd chipset) and 'ia64' > > (itanium) -- > > see the first two paragraphs of the wikipedia article on > > Itanium for an > > example: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium > > > > So how about something like: > > win-x86_64 > > win-ia64 > >Good point - but I'm not that keen on 'x86_64' - it seems a little too long, >especially as we will not be using 'x86_32', and the extra characters don't >seem like they will help resolve confusion (ie, if someone doesn't know what >architecture they are using, the extra '86' isn't going to help). > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 notes that 'x64' is a common name, so >how does 'win-x64' and 'win-ia64' sound as a compromise? I'm happy to let >any other informal "votes" make a final decision though...
win-x64 and win-ia64 sound fine to me, for whatever that's worth. :) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
