Re: Rethinking configuration tuples

[Po Lu]

"Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:11:39AM +0800, Po Lu wrote:
>> Where are the config maintainers?  Karl Barry and company?
>> (I don't remember his e-mail nor do I have it at hand.)
>> 
>> I would expect them to be actively reading this list, but instead my
>> original request has been left twisting in the wind.
>
> I'm the maintainer and I'm actively reading this list now,
> a bit surprised to find so many messages at this time of year. :)
>
> Apparently, you don't quite like commit
> 91f6a7f616b161c25ba2001861a40e662e18c4ad that added
> $cpu-$vendor-windows-{gnu,msvc} support to config.sub, but I'm not sure
> I understood what exactly do you suggest to change in this case.

To either revert the change, or to canonicalize them to
CPU-VENDOR-mingw* and CPU-VENDOR-winnt* respectively.  Neither `gnu' nor
`msvc' are appropriate for the operating system field.