Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Mar 2, at 6:19, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Chris Dolan wrote: On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?K

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 23:47 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: So, I think the proper name to the variables would be $?ARCH and $*ARCH Where they would stringify to the arch triplet, while providing convenience me

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 10:39 -0300, Daniel Ruoso escreveu: > Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 23:47 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: > > Are we talking about $?VM vs. $?XVM here? > Well, yes... that adresses $?HOST_PERL and $?TARGET_PERL... but still > leaves $?HOST_ARCH and $?TARGET_ARCH, assuming not a

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 23:47 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: > On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > So, I think the proper name to the variables would be > > $?ARCH and $*ARCH > > Where they would stringify to the arch triplet, while providing > > convenience methods for .cpu, .platform a

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 17:04 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 17:04 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: > Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* > counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it > with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). Thoughts? The usual way

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Chris Dolan wrote: On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). Th

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Dolan
On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). Thoughts? I disagree. User-space cod

$?OS change

2009-03-01 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). Thoughts? :) - | Na