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.
thanks
sven