What would you suggest/advise given your huge knowledge and experiences on so
many different Unix
systems?
Should the test be adapted to check whether Ubuntu is the host system (e.g. "if
sysVersion()~caselessPos('Ubuntu')>0 then ...")?
Should the function work differently on Ubuntu to match the behaviour of other
Unix systems? If so,
how could one determine/decide which behaviour should be expected/picked by
Rexx programmers
employing them?
Should the functions behave according to the host system's behaviour, but
document it? If so, then
maybe a means for querying the exact behaviour might become important for Rexx
programmers to adjust
their logic accordingly (or pick a different function or use address).
How should differences among Unix versions be handled in principle?
Should maybe "PARSE SOURCE" return "UBUNTU" instead of "LINUX" to indicate that
it behaves
differently compared to other Linuxes?
---rony
On 16.02.2019 15:53, Enrico Sorichetti via Oorexx-devel wrote:
> I started a bit earlier ( do You remember Slackware )
>
> After that I went for Red Hat
>
> And got used to the red-hat and friends terminology
>
> I can agree on the Debian ways
> But Ubuntu has taken things a bit too far
>
> Apart being too much much windowish for my taste ;-)
>
> This morning it took me just 40 minutes to setup a Debian working
> environment for ooRexx
> I tried last week with ubuntu and I stopped trying after one day
>
> And … a couple of years ago developing with ubuntu
> Was really painful for the very bad choice they had made for the compiler and
> the headers
> Many configure.ac checks had to be rewritten because of that
> ( I got burned by the atomic support detection )
>
>
> Cheers
> E
>
>> On 16 Feb 2019, at 15:31, Michael Lueck <mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com> wrote:
>>
>> Enrico Sorichetti via Oorexx-devel wrote:
>>> Unfortunately Ubuntu is well known also for its odd way of doing things
>>
>> haha...
>>
>> The Debian / Ubuntu way makes sense, the other distros are the odd ones! ;-)
>>
>> Seriously... I started out with Red Hat 5.2 back in probably 1999. Yuck.
>> SuSE, Mandrake... more yuck.
>>
>> Then in 2004 my "right hand man in America" suggested I try Debian... which
>> I had heard had a reputation of being "stick shift'ish"... and quickly
>> connected with it.
>>
>> One of the big draws for me was that dpkg came with built-in package
>> dependency checking whereas rpm lacked it.
>>
>> I am thankful,
>>
>> --
>> Michael Lueck
>> Lueck Data Systems
>> http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
>>
>>
>>
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