Re: [weewx-development] Re: [patch] station.py support OS uptime for FreeBSD 11

[Jon Marnock]

That is a good point, and it doesn’t look from that code as though windows is 
currently supported. I might take a look at writing something that does switch 
on OS with differing strategies. I kind of don’t like that approach in general 
(because it feels like the ‘ol “version check” in windows which everyone got so 
wrong for so png that MS actively fights you if you try and get that info on 
recent versions). Mostly though my issue is that OS versions aren’t necessarily 
correlated directly with methods - eg, until about 5.7 iirc, OpenBSD had a 
procfs you could use, but it was dropped. Arguably we should be testing fpr the 
existence of methods, not versions (the current exception driven design is 
actually closer to this, though just trying t and dealing with the fallout when 
it fails is perhaps less elegant!)