On Sun 24 Jul 2016 16:32, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: >> Does the uname MinGW patch introduce a regression in any case that we >> care about? > > No. On the contrary: where before Guile would only report correct OS > version up to and including XP, it now reports correct values also for > Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. Versions beyond that require the > manifest, and otherwise will be reported as 8.0. > > Also, the modern CPU types are now supported, including 64-bit ones, > which were not reported at all before. > >> Is it a user-visible change? If so an update to NEWS might be >> needed. > > From my POV, this is a bugfix: APIs that were reporting inaccurate > values now report more accurate ones.
Thanks for the info, and the patches of course :) Andy
