From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 20 07:12:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEDEE1065670 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:12:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alp@rsu.ru) Received: from test.r61.net (test.r61.net [195.208.245.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CFDF8FC0C for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:12:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pyhalov.cc.rsu.ru (pyhalov.cc.rsu.ru [195.208.255.102]) (Authenticated sender: alp@test.r61.net) by test.r61.net (MTA) with ESMTPSA id 17EA83A1459; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:12:37 +0400 (MSK) Message-ID: <4F682DE4.5010406@rsu.ru> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:12:36 +0400 From: Alexander Pyhalov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110306 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp References: <69607.1332224677@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <69607.1332224677@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ABI/architecture identification for packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:12:44 -0000 Hello. On 03/20/2012 10:24, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message<20120319215802.GC1692@azathoth.lan>, Baptiste Daroussin writes: > >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:35:08PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> here is the identification I propose: >>> >>> arch-class-os-majorversion(-archi_specific_extension) > > Given how sparse this name-space is, you'll have less than 50 > different values, you might want to consider something more compact, > such as a single letter for all components, and the version number last: > > X2F9 = x64-32-freebsd-9 > X4F10 = x64-64-freebsd-10 > A2FB9 = arm-32-freebsd-eb_oabi-9 > > By the time we run out of ASCII or even Unicode characters, we have > other problems. > And what is a purpose of making non-human-friendly platform identifiers? I think, you'll gain nothing by this, but will create an unnecessary complication. -- Best regards, Alexander Pyhalov, system administrator of Computer Center of Southern Federal University