Library proposal: Add System.Info.isWindows

[Ian Lynagh]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:05:30AM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 01:39 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:24:05AM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > > 
> > > Yes, as Issaac suggests perhaps we should drop the String parameter to
> > > OtherOS since it tells you nothing useful.
> > 
> > You can match on
> > 
> >     OtherOS "BeOS"
> > 
> > while you wait for the BeOS alternative to be added, although you do
> > need a dash of CPP to support both old and new compilers once it has
> > been added.
> 
> Hmm, but how is the base lib going to be set up to return OtherOS
> "BeOS"? This would have to be done during porting, wouldn't it be just
> as easy for said porter to add BeOS to the OSType enumeration?

I was thinking of uname output, but it's true that GHC at least will
just fail if it doesn't recognise the platform. I'm not sure about the
other impls.


Thanks
Ian