Re: time to update the CPAN Testers Matrix?

[email protected] (Karen Etheridge)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.testers.discuss
Message-ID <CAPJsHfBVcSb958CdfPirL8ZK378Y11v97p31JA7x6kqw-7zOew@mail.gmail.com>
Alceu,
I don't understand what you're asking. `$^O` returns 'darwin' on MacOS
systems. Are you suggesting that *that* be changed?

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:08 AM Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. via
cpan-testers-discuss <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hello folks,
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> I was having a little chat with David (https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-Devel-CheckOS/pull/22#issuecomment-477154904) and looks like I was leaded into the wrong way by the "Darwin" appearing in the CPAN Testers Matrix for a distribution (for example, http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Archive-Tar-Wrapper+0.34). Shouldn't we change that to MacOSX or something else? I'm not a MacOSX user myself, but it seems I should list it as a acceptable OS for Archite-Tar-Wrapper.
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> It seems also that the official documentation should be updated regarding Darwin/MacOSX as well: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlport.html#Unix.
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> Thanks,
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> Alceu
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