[bug#55220] [PATCH v2 2/6] platform: Add discovery support.

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hey,

> Food for later: I'm wondering if it would make sense to (long term)
> let %current-system/%current-target-system be a <platform> record
> and eliminate nix-system->gnu-triplet, gnu-triplet->nix-system in
> favour of platform-target & platform-system.  That could avoid the
> problem of forgetting that targets and nix systems have different
> formats, making a class of cross-compilation bugs less likely ...

I think that's what we should aim for the future. Getting rid of
system/triplet strings and using platforms everywhere instead will be
less error prone, even if there is still some work to get there.

Mathieu