On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Scott Ritchie <sc...@open-vote.org> wrote: > Austin English wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Juan Lang <juan.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Does "mac" mean "powerpc mac only"? I rather >>>> thought it meant "apple macintosh", regardless >>>> of cpu. I ask because Austin has just gone through >>>> and changed lots of "mac" bugs to "pc" even >>>> though the bugs were on Intel macs, which just >>>> seems wrong. >>> I agree with you, this change seems suspect. Austin, are you trying >>> to distinguish PPC bugs from x86 ones with this, or what? >>> --Juan >>> >>> >>> >> >> I've seen the same change made a few times in the past (I'd have to >> search for it). Looking at other bugzilla's, Mozilla puts Intel Mac >> bugs under PC...after all, since they've moved to x86, for all intents >> and purposes, Intel Macs are PC's (especially if running Linux rather >> than OS X). Those running OS X still can be identified as such by the >> OS field. >> >> Yes, my goal was to separate x86/ppc bugs. >> > > Then we should change the tab to read ppc rather than mac.
I know this is an old thread, but I'd like to (finally) make some progress on this... I'd really like to see the Macintosh verb removed/renamed, since an Intel Mac is really just a PC. The OS field tells us it's a Mac, and, for example, a Linux OS on an Intel Mac is no different (to Wine) than a regular x86/x86_64 PC running Linux. Dan and I discussed it, and figured renaming the hardware to reflect the architecture would be more descriptive: Macintosh -> ppc32 PC -> x86 PC-x86-64 -> x86-64 sun -> sparc How does that sound? -- -Austin
