Re: Adopt a platform today!

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 18 Feb 2011, at 08:07, Niels Grewe wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 06:24:23PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
>> Some time around the last release, there was an idea that we should document 
>> the platforms that we actually care about in the next release.  If you care 
>> about a platform, then you should:
> 
> I also think this would be a pretty good idea. I'd only like to mention
> that "platform" is more then just the combination of CPU-architecture
> and OS: It should also include the compiler + runtime + ABI as factors.

Definitely ... we have quite some variation there.
There's also the factor of whether we are using garbage collection or not ... 
not really an issue since that's very much stuck at alpha-test level due to a 
complete lack of interest, but hopefully someone will polish up the gc support 
at some point.