[Gretl-devel] Re: $sysinfo.os vs. $windows (and Mac?)

Am 23.10.2021 um 22:19 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Sat, 23 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Am 23.10.2021 um 21:59 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> >>> My take on this is that it's very unlikely that anyone wants to branch >>> in a script based on "osx" versus "linux" since they're both at core >>> unix variants. So we should be safe just updating the string under >>> $sysinfo.os from "osx" to "macos". >> >> Well, as it happens, I have a non-public package which checks for "osx" >> because it has to give up in that case. > > Hmm, what is definitely not going to work on macOS? I'm helping Ekkehart in wrapping his standalone C program with a gretl function package that calls the respective executables. A prototype is already working nicely (in principle) on Windows and Linux. There is no executable for MacOS, however, and that's why I need to test for this platform, not just for Windows. Also if there were such a binary in the future, it would surely be different from the Linux one, so the test remains necessary, I'd say. If $sysinfo.os doesn't spit out "osx" anymore, then the package will be broken on gretl versions <2021e.