Clarification about language and compiler attributes in the buildDescription about fmi-standard HOT 3 CLOSED

This problem was already reported in #1305 and #1676, but IMHO there's still no satisfying solution.

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@masoud-najafi , @PTaeuberDS and all:

Are there any concrete proposals what to fix and clarify? Please start a PR!

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Discussion:

Patrick: we could create a list of Compiler names on a separate Webpage
Andreas: This is not standardized.
Pierre: We could place stuff in the IG. But which problem do we want to solve?
Andreas: Ideally this is machine readable and you could compile the code automatically.
Pierre: in order that this works, the exporter has to test it. Why then not ship the binaries. All this makes sense, if you do not have the compiler available.
Andreas: you might not know the platform
Pierre: We should stick to language tags, not compiler tags.
Andreas: what we face: you get an FMU, you run compilers blindly, use certain failure pattern to fix issues. If we had a language tag, we could simplify this.
Pierre: often implementation are not portable.
Andreas: Agreement: this is not in general solvable, but we can help third parties in many cases.
Pierre: Let's do this in the IG, and include a hint in the FMI 3.0.1 RC2

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