[Gretl-devel] Re: $sysinfo.os vs. $windows (and Mac?)

2021-11-09 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 24.10.2021 um 14:22 schrieb Sven Schreiber: Am 24.10.2021 um 13:50 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Sun, 24 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 23.10.2021 um 22:19 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Sat, 23 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 23.10.2021 um 21:59 schrieb Allin Cottrell: My take on

[Gretl-devel] Re: $sysinfo.os vs. $windows (and Mac?)

2021-10-24 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 24.10.2021 um 13:50 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Sun, 24 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 23.10.2021 um 22:19 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Sat, 23 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 23.10.2021 um 21:59 schrieb Allin Cottrell: My take on this is that it's very unlikely that anyone wants

[Gretl-devel] Re: $sysinfo.os vs. $windows (and Mac?)

2021-10-24 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sun, 24 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 23.10.2021 um 22:19 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Sat, 23 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 23.10.2021 um 21:59 schrieb Allin Cottrell: My take on this is that it's very unlikely that anyone wants to branch in a script based on "osx" versus

[Gretl-devel] Re: $sysinfo.os vs. $windows (and Mac?)

2021-10-24 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 24.10.2021 um 12:32 schrieb Marcin Błażejowski: On 23.10.2021 21:59, Allin Cottrell wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: My take on this is that it's very unlikely that anyone wants to branch in a script based on "osx" versus "linux" since they're both at core unix variants. So

[Gretl-devel] Re: $sysinfo.os vs. $windows (and Mac?)

2021-10-24 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 23.10.2021 um 22:19 schrieb Allin Cottrell: On Sat, 23 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 23.10.2021 um 21:59 schrieb Allin Cottrell: My take on this is that it's very unlikely that anyone wants to branch in a script based on "osx" versus "linux" since they're both at core unix variants.

[Gretl-devel] Re: $sysinfo.os vs. $windows (and Mac?)

2021-10-24 Thread Marcin Błażejowski
On 23.10.2021 21:59, Allin Cottrell wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: My take on this is that it's very unlikely that anyone wants to branch in a script based on "osx" versus "linux" since they're both at core unix variants. So we should be safe just updating the string under

[Gretl-devel] Re: $sysinfo.os vs. $windows (and Mac?)

2021-10-23 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sat, 23 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: Am 23.10.2021 um 21:59 schrieb Allin Cottrell: My take on this is that it's very unlikely that anyone wants to branch in a script based on "osx" versus "linux" since they're both at core unix variants. So we should be safe just updating the string

[Gretl-devel] Re: $sysinfo.os vs. $windows (and Mac?)

2021-10-23 Thread Sven Schreiber
Am 23.10.2021 um 21:59 schrieb Allin Cottrell: My take on this is that it's very unlikely that anyone wants to branch in a script based on "osx" versus "linux" since they're both at core unix variants. So we should be safe just updating the string under $sysinfo.os from "osx" to "macos".

[Gretl-devel] Re: $sysinfo.os vs. $windows (and Mac?)

2021-10-23 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sat, 23 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: Hi all, the doc says that $sysinfo.os gives "linux", "osx", "windows" or other as a piece of introspection. An older accessor is $windows, which returns 0 or 1. So the $windows accessor appears redundant and doesn't cover the Mac - should it perhaps