Re: time to update the CPAN Testers Matrix?
[email protected] (Karen Etheridge)
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> we (well, p5p) should probably delete the entry in that list > for Darwin (with a capital D) as it is potentially confusing No, that's the value that's in use today in `uname -s` on OSX, as I showed in my earlier reply. On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 5:19 PM David Cantrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2019-03-27 17:31, Karen Etheridge wrote: > > Alceu, > > I don't understand what you're asking. `$^O` returns 'darwin' on MacOS > > systems. Are you suggesting that *that* be changed? > > He's saying that the CPAN-testers website should say "Mac OS X" instead > of "Darwin", and ... > > >> It seems also that the official documentation should be updated regarding Darwin/MacOSX as well: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlport.html#Unix. > > `perldoc perlport` is clear that $Config{archname} and $^O are derived > > from uname. > > It would obviously be silly to change the value of $^O for OS X at this > stage, but we (well, p5p) should probably delete the entry in that list > for Darwin (with a capital D) as it is potentially confusing. Open > Darwin barely existed and has been dead for over a decade. I doubt that > there is a single person actually using any vaguely recent perl on it. > > -- > David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive > > I think the most difficult moment that anyone could face is seeing > their domestic servants, whether maid or drivers, run away > -- Abdul Rahman Al-Sheikh, writing on 25 Jan 2004 at > http://www.arabnews.com/node/243486