From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Update 'uname' emulation on MS-Windows
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 19:04:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2gbq85t.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83poq3t8cz.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 24 Jul 2016 17:32:12 +0300")
On Sun 24 Jul 2016 16:32, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Does the uname MinGW patch introduce a regression in any case that we
>> care about?
>
> No. On the contrary: where before Guile would only report correct OS
> version up to and including XP, it now reports correct values also for
> Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. Versions beyond that require the
> manifest, and otherwise will be reported as 8.0.
>
> Also, the modern CPU types are now supported, including 64-bit ones,
> which were not reported at all before.
>
>> Is it a user-visible change? If so an update to NEWS might be
>> needed.
>
> From my POV, this is a bugfix: APIs that were reporting inaccurate
> values now report more accurate ones.
Thanks for the info, and the patches of course :)
Andy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-24 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-16 7:27 Update 'uname' emulation on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-16 8:58 ` Andy Wingo
2016-07-16 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-16 21:40 ` Andy Moreton
2016-07-17 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-17 12:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-23 21:03 ` Andy Wingo
2016-07-24 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-24 17:04 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
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