Re: time to update the CPAN Testers Matrix?

`perldoc perlport` is clear that $Config{archname} and $^O are derived
from uname.

$ uname -s
Darwin

I think it would be more confusing to make these values inconsistent.

Perhaps cpantesters could add a footnote somewhere letting people know
that 'darwin' means mac os systems for those who aren't aware?




On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 1:32 PM Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. via
cpan-testers-discuss <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I mean, the perl gave "darwin", but it should mean "macosx" or something like that.
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> We could suggest (I guess) to change that on the interpreter or to update the matrix at matrix.cpantesters.org. I think the later should be easier since "darwin" => "macosx" anyway.
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> Em quarta-feira, 27 de março de 2019 14:31:24 BRT, Karen Etheridge <[email protected]> escreveu:
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> Alceu,
> I don't understand what you're asking. `$^O` returns 'darwin' on MacOS
> systems. Are you suggesting that *that* be changed?
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> 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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