"Jacob Carlborg" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Walter Bright wrote: >> Anders F Björklund wrote: >>> Walter Bright wrote: >>> >>>>> OSX is the new name for Apple's OSes: Mac OS X and iPhone OS. >>>>> >>>>> And of course DMD can use anything, but GDC uses darwin/Unix. >>>> >>>> Apple can't seem to make up their mind. uname does return "Darwin". gcc >>>> predefines "__MACH__" and "__APPLE__", but neither darwin nor osx. The >>>> documentation all says osx. >>> >>> Will you set version(darwin) though, or would that be "version(osx)" ? >>> >>> The existing D code for Mac OS X all uses version(darwin) from before. >> >> version(OSX) >> >> I just don't think darwin is a good idea, as Apple doesn't even use it. >> See http://developer.apple.com/unix/index.html, where "darwin" is clearly >> second string. It looks like Apple is pushing aside "darwin" in favor of >> "OSX". > > I'm not going to argue about what is the best version identifier for Mac > OS X, the I only thing I care about is consistency and "darwin" is already > used by LDC and GDC. Don't make things harder. > >> Fortunately, (darwin) => (OSX) is a trivial global search/replace. > > And I assume it's equally trivial to implement "darwin" as the version > identifier. Again, don't make things harder by breaking existing code.
I don't have an opinion on the correct identifier to use, but not implementing a change that makes something more correct *just* because it breaks existing code (particularly in an easy-to-fix way) is a terrible strategy. That's exactly what's turned C++ into the abysmal mess that it is today, which in turn is one of the primary reasons for D's existence. I don't want to end up with yet another C++.
