[Distutils] Consistent platform name for 64bit windows

[Dave Peterson]

Christian Heimes wrote:
> mhammond at keypoint.com.au schrieb:
>   
>> So, at the risk of painting a bike-shed, I'd like to propose that we adopt
>> 'AMD64' in distutils (needs a change), platform.py (needs a change to use
>> sys.getwindowsversion() in preference to pywin32, if possible, anyway),
>> and the Python banner (which already uses AMD64).
>>     
>
> +1 for AMD64
>   

I'm also +1 for AMD64 (or amd64).

BTW, the wikipedia entry for AMD64 points out that FreeBSD, NetBSD, 
OpenBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, Solaris, and the Java Development Kit all use 
"amd64".   Though it claims that Microsoft and Sun both use 'x64' in 
their marketing material.

> If we ever need names for Itanium and i386 compatible arch I propose 
> IA64 and X86.
>   

IA64 seems pretty standard so +1 on that.

But I'm -1 on the X86.  It's too easy to get confused with what that 
means versus terms like x86-16, x86-32, and x86-64.  Admittedly the 
first two are little used, but I have seen them once or twice.  What's 
wrong with using i386 itself?


-- Dave
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