Library proposal: Add System.Info.isWindows

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 01:37:38 EDT 2007


Hello Thomas,

Tuesday, August 7, 2007, 12:24:00 AM, you wrote:
>> .... = os == "mingw"

> is hardly better, because this opens the door to political issues  
> (why not have isLinux, isFreeBSD, isNetBSD, ...?)

i bet that above-mentioned System.Info.os should alow to test for
these situations. it return unix-specific string so it should be good to
distinguish any unix OSes and only recognizing windows is a problem

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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