Why version() ?

[Anders F Björklund]

Walter Bright wrote:

> I just don't think darwin is a good idea, as Apple doesn't even use it. 
> See http://developer.apple.com/unix/index.html, where "darwin" is 
> clearly second string. It looks like Apple is pushing aside "darwin" in 
> favor of "OSX".

GDC uses the same GNU triplets as GCC and configure, with the "os" part.
(there's normally a cpu part, a vendor part, and a gnu part for linux)

So the version used would be similar to the powerpc-apple-darwin8 or
i686-apple-darwin9, or any of the other common variants on Mac OS X ?

Like powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu and i686-pc-linux-gnu for Linux, it is
usually the same as the uname(1) but in lower case (see config.guess)

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess


These GNU triplets are also used when cross-compiling, for instance...
They're not identical to the GDC versions, but I prefer using "darwin".

The other common version(Unix) ones were:
linux, darwin, cygwin, freebsd, solaris

--anders


PS. uname(1) on cygwin is somewhat weird, like "CYGWIN_NT-5.1" or so.
     And I think Solaris still returns "SunOS" for the system name...