Proper value for os.arch on Apple Silicon

[Joshua Root]

On 2020-6-23 14:50 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Now that Apple has announced that Macs will have ARM processors [1], what is the proper value for ${os.arch} on such systems?
> 
> MacPorts base currently knows two values of ${os.arch}: "powerpc" is used on all 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC systems while "i386" is used on all 32-bit and 64-bit Intel systems.
> 
> I'm not necessarily asking what value MacPorts currently prints for this variable on an Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit machine, but rather what value it should print.
The value of os.arch is intended to match `uname -p`.

- Josh