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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: 55220@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#55220] [PATCH v2 2/6] platform: Add discovery support.
Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 15:06:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkvpemyr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <830f00ba147aa40618e00e641d2afc61559f419f.camel@telenet.be> (Maxime Devos's message of "Mon, 09 May 2022 22:58:03 +0200")


Hey,

> Food for later: I'm wondering if it would make sense to (long term)
> let %current-system/%current-target-system be a <platform> record
> and eliminate nix-system->gnu-triplet, gnu-triplet->nix-system in
> favour of platform-target & platform-system.  That could avoid the
> problem of forgetting that targets and nix systems have different
> formats, making a class of cross-compilation bugs less likely ...

I think that's what we should aim for the future. Getting rid of
system/triplet strings and using platforms everywhere instead will be
less error prone, even if there is still some work to get there.

Mathieu




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-22 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-02 11:17 [bug#55220] [PATCH 0/4] Add --list-systems and --list-targets options Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-02 11:18 ` [bug#55220] [PATCH 1/4] platform: Introduce new platforms Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-02 11:18   ` [bug#55220] [PATCH 2/4] platform: Add discovery support Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-06 14:41     ` [bug#55220] [PATCH 0/4] Add --list-systems and --list-targets options Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-07 15:53       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-02 11:18   ` [bug#55220] [PATCH 3/4] ci: Do not rely on hardcoded cross-targets lists Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-02 11:18   ` [bug#55220] [PATCH 4/4] scripts: Add --list-systems and --list-targets options Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-06 14:54     ` [bug#55220] [PATCH 0/4] " Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-07 16:04       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-22  1:30       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-05-22  1:25     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-05-22 13:09       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-06 14:39   ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-07 15:50     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-06 14:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-07 16:11 ` [bug#55220] [PATCH v2 0/6] " Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-07 16:11   ` [bug#55220] [PATCH v2 1/6] platform: Introduce new platforms Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-09 20:44     ` Maxime Devos
2022-05-22  1:39       ` [bug#55220] [PATCH 0/4] Add --list-systems and --list-targets options Maxim Cournoyer
2022-05-22 13:12         ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-22 13:42           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-05-22 13:01       ` [bug#55220] [PATCH v2 1/6] platform: Introduce new platforms Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-09 20:50     ` Maxime Devos
2022-05-22 13:02       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-07 16:11   ` [bug#55220] [PATCH v2 2/6] platform: Add discovery support Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-09 20:58     ` Maxime Devos
2022-05-22  1:34       ` [bug#55220] [PATCH 0/4] Add --list-systems and --list-targets options Maxim Cournoyer
2022-05-22 13:06       ` Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
2022-05-07 16:11   ` [bug#55220] [PATCH v2 3/6] ci: Do not rely on hardcoded cross-targets lists Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-07 16:11   ` [bug#55220] [PATCH v2 4/6] scripts: Add --list-systems and --list-targets options Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-07 16:11   ` [bug#55220] [PATCH v2 5/6] platform: Add glibc-dynamic-linker field Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-07 16:11   ` [bug#55220] [PATCH v2 6/6] linux: Remove system->linux-architecture procedure Mathieu Othacehe

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