Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/02/22/15:35:06
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:01:38PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:09:33PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >Does anyone use the information, that starts with the "_" in "uname -s"?
> >For example on NT 4.0, I'm referring to the "_NT-4.0".
> [snip]
>
> I don't see why this is necessary. It comes up repeatedly and the
> extremely simple solution is to match on CYGWIN*. Many other systems
> use this convention. For instance, look at gdb's configure.in or
> configure.tgt script. There is a 'hpux*' and a 'solaris*'.
A Python developer was proposing changing sys.platform under Cygwin to
return
cygwin
instead of the current value of
cygwin_nt-4.01
Which would enable constructs like the following to work:
if sys.platform in ['cygwin', 'linux']:
# ...
I just figured that it was worth asking to "fix" this at the source
before they went ahead with their higher-level change.
> The information *could* potentially be important. Cygwin running on
> NT is not the same thing as Cygwin running on 95.
Agreed -- which is why I felt squeamish even bringing this up.
Thanks,
Jason
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