#2614: Enumeration of values for `Sys.Info.os`, `Sys.Info.arch`
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Reporter: jsnx | Owner: mjg
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.1
Component: libraries/base | Version: 6.8.3
Keywords: | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty: Unknown
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown
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Comment(by duncan):
Note that the original bug report is still perfectly valid. The fact that
`Sys.Info.os` and `Sys.Info.arch` are just strings and we have no idea
what values they can take is a real problem. My comment above #comment:1
was just to make the point that Cabal has had to solve this problem
itself, by bypassing `Sys.Info.os` and `Sys.Info.arch` and using its own
implementation. It would be more widely useful if we could improve
`Sys.Info.os` and `Sys.Info.arch`.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2614#comment:11>
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