Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/02/24/18:24:16
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:21:10PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>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']:
> # ...
Can't you do something equivalent with regular expressions in python?
cgf
- Raw text -