Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:24:37 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ABI/architecture identification for packages Message-ID: <69607.1332224677@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:58:02 %2B0100." <20120319215802.GC1692@azathoth.lan>
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In message <20120319215802.GC1692@azathoth.lan>, Baptiste Daroussin writes: >On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:35:08PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In order to identify architectures I need to find a uniq id for every >> possibilities (for pkgng) >> >> 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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