From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-12-27T11:13:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:33919] Re: [Ruby 1.9-Bug#3889] Incorrectly detected i686-w64-mingw32 as x64-mingw

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:33 PM, U.Nakamura <usa@garbagecollect.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In message "[ruby-core:33911] [Ruby 1.9-Bug#3889] Incorrectly detected i686-w64-mingw32 as x64-mingw"
> � �on Dec.27,2010 06:41:09, <redmine@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>> I would like to ask Mr. Usaku NAKAMURA to review it as mswin64 != mingw64, so there is no reason for canonicalize it as VC builds.
>
> me? not nobu?
> # I am the maintainer of mswin32/mswin64, but not of mingw.
>

I understand, but according to the comment, canonicalize according to
mswin*, was my understanding you discussed this with Nobu.

> Ah, the name of port "mswin64" means that it is targeted to
> use Win64 API set.
> "mswin32" and "mswince" means similar.
> But "mingw*" does not seem to be similar, and the meaning is
> fundamentally different from the names of other platforms.
> I cannot suggest any logical proposal with this state.
> After all, the maintainer of this platform might draw a conclusion
> according to his reason.
>

Thank you for your observations, assigning to Nobu for approval.

Regards,
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Luis Lavena
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