Am 22.10.2019 11:07:13 schrieb Nicolas Cellier <[hidden email]>:

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 <[hidden email]> a écrit :

> On 22.10.2019, at 10:17, Fabio Niephaus <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> 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])
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Win32 is the correct name, irrespective of 64/32 bit executables.

Best regards
        -Tobias

> Fabio
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> [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
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> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:18 AM John Pfersich via Squeak-dev <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>     Smalltalk platformName = "Mac OS"
>>        ifTrue:
>>           [ #('/System/Library/Fonts' '/Library/Fonts') do: [:fontDir | aBlock value: fontDir]. ]
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>> 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?
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>> Still others check for "Risc OS" or "unix".  So, the full list I have so far is:
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>>     unix
>>     Win32
>>     Mac OS
>>     Risc OS
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>> If you know of any others, please let me know.
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>>  - Chris
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