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Add Sys.is* for all recognized kernels #30249

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@ararslan ararslan commented Dec 3, 2018

I've found myself wanting Sys.isfreebsd while writing some FreeBSD-specific package code in my spare time. Per Elliot's suggestion (see below), this adds predicates for all kernels.

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Should it be isbsd to be a bit more general?

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musm commented Dec 3, 2018

isbsd already exists,
see #22794 , where it seemed that most people did not favor adding this function

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ararslan commented Dec 3, 2018

It was mostly me that didn't find it necessary at the time, but I've come around on it (hence the PR).

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I kind of feel we should just jump the shark and just provide a convenience function for every kernel we officially recognize (e.g. OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc....). It's not like it's a significant effort for us to support these single-line methods, and since it's so easy the typical argument of "don't add it until we need it" feels less strong somehow.

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ararslan commented Dec 3, 2018

I agree, I like that approach. (Though who knows whether we'll even be able to support OpenBSD; they need a heinous number of their own patches just to build LLVM...)

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I like to think that we, as a community, error on the side of optimism, rather than pessimism.

@ararslan ararslan changed the title Add Sys.isfreebsd Add Sys.is* for all recognized kernels Dec 3, 2018
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We have `Sys.is*` for a subset of supported platforms, but not for all
recognized kernels, e.g. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc. `Sys.isbsd` isn't
specific enough in some cases, and `Sys.KERNEL === x` is inconsistent
with other systems.
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