Please consider if the work done in Pharo OSPlatform may fit.
Otherwise, maintaining multi-dialect compatibility becomes harder than
necessary.


Le mar. 22 oct. 2019 à 10:21, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> a écrit :

>
> > On 22.10.2019, at 10:17, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:
> >
> > Considering there's quite some code relying on `Smalltalk platformName =
> 'Win32'`, I'm certain the Windows 64bit VM also returns `Win32`. We might
> want to clean this up, but it will be hard to provide backward
> compatibility. In 64bit GraalSqueak, we also return 'Win32' (see [1])
> >
>
> Win32 is the correct name, irrespective of 64/32 bit executables.
>
> Best regards
>         -Tobias
>
> > Fabio
> >
> > [1]
> https://github.com/hpi-swa/graalsqueak/blob/9ce025f5f891a6369881551897e39a604cd6e617/src/de.hpi.swa.graal.squeak/src/de/hpi/swa/graal/squeak/util/OSDetector.java#L37
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:18 AM John Pfersich via Squeak-dev <
> squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote:
> > I dunno, my Squeak download says its 64 bit, but Smalltalk platformName
> answers Win32 still; isn’t the 64 bit exe still experimental?
> >
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> >> On Oct 21, 2019, at 18:10, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >> I was trying to find out all possible values of this message.  Browsing
> senders reveals a need to factor this out into a first-class SqueakPlatform
> -- we have way too many places which employ switch statements to determine
> what to do:
> >>
> >>     Smalltalk platformName = "Mac OS"
> >>        ifTrue:
> >>           [ #('/System/Library/Fonts' '/Library/Fonts') do: [:fontDir |
> aBlock value: fontDir]. ]
> >>
> >> Others check for "Win32", I'm not sure what #platformName is answering
> on 64-bit VM on Windows these days, could someone running Windows please
> tell me?
> >>
> >> Still others check for "Risc OS" or "unix".  So, the full list I have
> so far is:
> >>
> >>     unix
> >>     Win32
> >>     Mac OS
> >>     Risc OS
> >>
> >> If you know of any others, please let me know.
> >>
> >>  - Chris
> >>
> >
> >
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