On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:05:12AM -0400, Nigel Horne wrote:
> On 10/25/2010 10:50 PM, David Golden wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:49 PM, David Cantrell<[email protected]>  
>> wrote:
>>    
>>> For CPANdeps etc, what OS should I report GNU KFREEBSD as?  I'm guessing
>>> that the userland is radically different from a "traditional" FreeBSD,
>>> so do you think it would be appropriate to list it as "FreeBSD (Debian)",
>>> seperately from the mainstream FreeBSD reports?
>>>      
>> For CPANdeps, where you're providing a "proper" name (instead of
>> whatever abbreviated version is compiled into perl), I would suggest
>> stick as close to official names as possible.  E.g. "GNU/kFreeBSD" or
>> "GNU kFreeBSD". Consider "GNU/Hurd" as a good example.
>>    
> I agree - with the addition of GNU/Linux instead of Linux.  However the  
> (cosmetic) problem this creates is a wide table in the matrix for  
> modules where many platforms have been tested, which looks ungainly.

I'd agree too. I'll look at adding those for my matrix images. I hadn't
noticed the additional FreeBSD, as the detection just looks for
'freebsd' at the moment. I'll need to sort that out.

I'll also change to GNU/Linux seeing as that is the more appropriate
name :)

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