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 :) Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org> Ark Appreciation Pages <http://ark.eology.org>
