On 2019-03-27 17:31, Karen Etheridge wrote:
Alceu,
I don't understand what you're asking. `$^O` returns 'darwin' on MacOS
systems. Are you suggesting that *that* be changed?
He's saying that the CPAN-testers website should say "Mac OS X" instead
of "Darwin", and ...
It seems also that the official documentation should be updated regarding
Darwin/MacOSX as well: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlport.html#Unix.
> `perldoc perlport` is clear that $Config{archname} and $^O are derived
> from uname.
It would obviously be silly to change the value of $^O for OS X at this
stage, but we (well, p5p) should probably delete the entry in that list
for Darwin (with a capital D) as it is potentially confusing. Open
Darwin barely existed and has been dead for over a decade. I doubt that
there is a single person actually using any vaguely recent perl on it.
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