Dominique wrote:
> > + *windowsversion()*
> > + windowsversion()
> > + The result is a String. For MS-Windows it indicates the OS
> > + version. E.g, Windows 10 is "10.0", Windows 8 is "6.2",
> > + Windows XP is "5.1". For non-MS-Windows systems the result
> > is
> > + an empty string.
>
> Hard-coding the OS name in the function name seems
> inelegant and not flexible. What if we also need the version
> of macOs, etc.?
>
> How about instead a more general function systeminfo()
> (any better name?) which returns a dictionary with keys for:
>
> * os name ("Windows", "GNU/Linux", "macOs", …)
> * os version (a version number/string, specific to OS)
> * possibly other keys e.g. architecture: "x86", "x86_64", ...
It's possible to make it more generic, but it would then start out as
only implemented for MS-Windows. And I have no idea when we would need
anything for other systems. For Linux/Unix there usually is a way to
get info about the system with a shell command, e.g. with "uname".
Also, we already have has('unix'), has('mac'), etc.
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