Currently for different windows' builds, the names for RUBY_PLATFORM
are defined as
i386-mingw32
i386-mswin32
i386-whatever

A lotta people in their code like to use this to test for OS:
if RUBY_PLATFORM !~ /mswin/
  # do stuff
else
 # windows
end

I therefore wish that all of these somehow contained some common prefix, like
i386-win32-mingw
i386-win32-msvc
i386-dos-whatever

So that these comparisons can be made to still make sense with
differing compilers
if RUBY_PLATFORM !~ /.*w*32/
  # do stuff
end

to allow for mingw and mswin32 is not very intuitive.

Thoughts?
Cheers!
-Roger
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