Re: time to update the CPAN Testers Matrix?

[email protected] ("Alceu R. de Freitas Jr." via cpan-testers-discuss)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.testers.discuss
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 In that case, makes much more sense to add the footnote and live with that. Changing $^O would be wrong as it is dependent on the value of something defined by the OS maintainer.
At least for now it is clear that I need to maintain "darwin" as a OS that supports Archive-Tar-Wrapper. But others can go into the wrong assumption in the future.

    Em quarta-feira, 27 de março de 2019 21:37:14 BRT, Karen Etheridge <[email protected]> escreveu:  
 
 > 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.
>
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