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From: "Norman Vine" <nhv AT cape DOT com>
To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: uname -s question
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 19:43:43 -0500
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Christopher Faylor writes:
>
>On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 07:21:37PM -0500, Norman Vine wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor writes:
>>>>Which would enable constructs like the following to work:
>>>>
>>>>    if sys.platform in ['cygwin', 'linux']:
>>>>        # ...
>>>
>>>Can't you do something equivalent with regular expressions in python?
>>
>>Of course, we are doing something 'equivalent' and will 
>contiue todo so.
>
>I was trying to get a handle on why this was a problem.  Judging by
>usages in most of the configure scripts in sources.redhat.com and by
>perl's Configure, the convention for many systems is to refer to the
>system name with a wildcard (e.g., netbsd*), when necessary.
>
>I was trying to determine why this was not acceptable for Python.

FYI
Here is the original comment that led to this question.

> > Looking at the GuessOS helper in the Apache source distribution
> > I'd say that cygwin is completely non-standard in returning
> > version information with uname -s.

Norman Vine