Version Identifiers for Platforms / Architectures not supported by DMD

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, November 07, 2011 17:04 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/7/2011 2:29 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> > If any change is to be made, and I'm not sure it's a good idea to change
> > anything at all here, I'd go with all lower case for all of them.
> 
> I don't see any gain to changing the existing identifiers. It's all
> bikeshedding with the illusion of progress, yet making arbitrary amounts
> of work for others as they have to go edit their code. We've got much more
> important things that need doing.

I could see an argument for adding new version identifiers for one or two 
(leaving in the old ones for backwards compatability) of them if it made them 
all consistent, but outright changing any of them would break too much code, 
and changing most or all of them would _definitely_ break too much code. Yes, 
I'd prefer that linux be Linux, but I'm not sure that it's a good idea to have 
both Linux and linux work, and I definitely agree that changing any of those 
identifiers at this point would be too disruptive. So, while I think that the 
current situation is less than ideal, I think that we're pretty much stuck at 
this point.

- Jonathan M Davis