[Gretl-devel] Re: $sysinfo.os vs. $windows (and Mac?)
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.
One solution might be to change the string to "osx macos" and recommend
the use of instring() as a check, so checking for "osx" and "macos"
would both work, with old and new gretl versions. But OTOH maybe it's
not really worth touching it and better just add a note in the doc...
MS Windows is definitely the odd man out. For that reason I'd say
it's
worth preserving the $windows accessor, which is a lightweight
alternative to producing the full $sysinfo bundle if a script or package
writer just wants to enable special treatment for Windows.
OK, sounds reasonable!
thanks
sven