Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:10:21PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: Discuss: Base packages for Win32 / Win64 / OS X >> cross-compilation >> From: Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Date: 02/11/2009 03:39 PM >> >>> Which raises also the possibility of combining mingw32-binutils and >>> mingw64-binutils together (as well as mingw32-gcc and mingw64-gcc as >>> mentioned in the previous email). >>> >> >> Does this call for a different arch naming classification? >> >> Now Fixed >> mingw32-gcc mingw-gcc >> mingw32-gtk2 mingw-gtk2-win32, mingw-gtk2-win64 >> >> ... or something similar? I see little sense in keeping the name >> "mingw32" as the main name if we're going to start including win64 >> capability. > > A good question. > > There are several things which restrict us here: (1) mingw32-* is the > naming scheme for 32 bit Windows cross-compiler packages, as approved > by various Fedora bodies. That approval took months of wrangling to > achieve. (2) The (moderate) difficulty of renaming existing source > packages. > > The naming scheme I suggested would be something like: > > mingw32-zlib.src.rpm > | | | > | generating | > | | | > V V V > mingw32-zlib mingw64-zlib darwinx-zlib > > An ideal naming scheme (if we could start over) might be something > like: > > cross-zlib.src.rpm > | | | > | generating | > | | | > V V V > zlib-win32 zlib-win64 zlib-darwin > > But the points (1) and (2) above make this difficult to really achieve > from where we are right now. Particularly (1). Anything where we > have to go back to FPC/FESCO is undesirable and might even jeopardise > the whole project. (Look back at the heated mailing list / IRC > arguments from last summer).
anyway it's a good question wether osx or darwin is the better name? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
