[aur-general] Cross-compilers naming scheme

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

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On 12/17/2011 04:29 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> If someone hasn't spot it yet, we have mess with naming of
> cross-compilers in [community]. Currently there are 3 schemes:
> 1) $appname-$platform (gcc-avr and binutils-avr)
> The only problem I see is mingw32 (and related packages). While
> {gcc,binutils}-mingw32 looks fine, I don't know what to do with
> mingw32-pthreads, mingw32-runtime and mingw32-w32api.
> 2) $platform-$appname (mingw32 packages)
> My favorite. Seems to be most readable (IMHO) and can be easily
> applied to every cross-compiler.
> 3) cross-$platform-$appname
> Probably as good as second option, but cross prefix is annoying me.
>
> I've already discussed it with Alexander Rødseth, but Arch isn't a
> project for a few people. What do you think? Which option is the best one?
>
I agree that this is a problem and I'm unsure whether to vote for 2) or
3). cross- is annoying as a prefix but makes the nature of the package
rather clear.
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