On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:05:37AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, at the risk of painting a bike-shed, I'd like to propose that we adopt > 'AMD64' in distutils (needs a change), platform.py (needs a change to use > sys.getwindowsversion() in preference to pywin32, if possible, anyway), > and the Python banner (which already uses AMD64).
Debian uses 'amd64', it seems they chose this after a survey of what existing systems used what names, and the consensus came out in favour of amd64. http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2004/06/msg00041.html _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
