Thoughts on std.system.OS

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-13 18:58, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, August 13, 2011 14:37:46 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2011-08-13 12:51, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> #2 and #3 don't really make sense between OSes, and I'd argue that they
>>> don't make much sense period. I don't know what they'd mean on Windows
>>> in any meaningful way. On Linux, I suppose that they could be the major
>>> and minor numbers of the kernel (e.g. 2 and 6 or 3 and 0), but that's
>>> pretty useless on Linux, given that they don't change very often. At
>>> this point, there would only really be two options: 2.6 and 3.0. And I
>>> don't know how major and minor could be applied to OS X or FreeBSD.
>>
>> In Mac OS X you have three version numbers, for example: 10.6.8. Or at
>> least two, don't know if I would call the first one a version number. I
>> mean, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 10 is two completely different operating systems.
>
> Well, since the OS is Mac OS X, not Mac OS (at least so far as versioning in D
> goes), then presumably 10.6.8 would have the major number 6 and the minor
> number 8.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Exactly.

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/Jacob Carlborg