[squeak-dev] Smalltalk>>#platformName

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Oct 22 17:57:55 UTC 2019


Smalltalk platformName
=> 'Web'
Smalltalk vmVersion
=> 'SqueakJS 0.9.7'

- Bert -

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 6:10 PM 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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