make it easier to add new platforms

[SeanTAllen]

right now, you have to touch a number of files in order to add a new platform like FreeBSD.

what would be ideal (even if a little slower) would be to add a single primitive that contains all the information needed for a platform so that you don't need to be touching multiple locations.

[Theodus]

Are you thinking that we should stop trying to map target identifiers to our supported platforms and just make a single table? I'm generally in favor of that at this point, but it would require us to update the table and release ponyup every time a platform is added.

[SeanTAllen]

I'm not completely sure @Theodus. Would having a table impact on the alternative distro work? Were you planning on doing that in a way that wouldn't require an update each time one was added?

[SeanTAllen]

How are you feeling about this now @Theodus?

I'd like to leave this open until @kulibali add Windows support and we can his feedback on the current state of things.