[ruby-core:97774] [Ruby master Feature#16742] RbConfig.windows? and RbConfig.host_os

Issue #16742 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto).


The `#host_os` seems OK.

Regarding `#windows?`, what do you want to check using the value? Drive letter? Path separator? Case insensitivity? Process behavior? Posix compatibility? Should it be true on Cygwin? It is not clear yet.

Matz.


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Feature #16742: RbConfig.windows? and RbConfig.host_os
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16742#change-84989

* Author: Eregon (Benoit Daloze)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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I think adding these two methods would greatly clarify platform checks:
```ruby
RbConfig.windows? # obvious, much clearer than RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /(mswin|mingw)/
RbConfig.host_os # same as RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os'], but much shorter
```

`RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os']` is too long and feels like digging in the internals even though it's such a simple thing to query.


For comparison, there is already a `RbConfig.ruby` method on `RbConfig`, which helps avoiding the boilerplate to access `RbConfig::CONFIG` manually.

Thoughts?



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