Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Dolan
On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). Thoughts? I disagree. User-space

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 17:04 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). Thoughts? The usual way to

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 17:04 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 23:47 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: So, I think the proper name to the variables would be $?ARCH and $*ARCH Where they would stringify to the arch triplet, while providing convenience methods for .cpu, .platform and .os.

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 10:39 -0300, Daniel Ruoso escreveu: Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 23:47 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: Are we talking about $?VM vs. $?XVM here? Well, yes... that adresses $?HOST_PERL and $?TARGET_PERL... but still leaves $?HOST_ARCH and $?TARGET_ARCH, assuming not all

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 23:47 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: So, I think the proper name to the variables would be $?ARCH and $*ARCH Where they would stringify to the arch triplet, while providing convenience

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Mar 2, at 6:19, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Chris Dolan wrote: On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with

$?OS change

2009-03-01 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). Thoughts? :) - |