From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T02:46:33+09:00
Subject: Re: PLATFORM tests

Hello Luke, 

Your library looks tremendously useful for a certain kind of work. I am 
asking myself why you didn't put it into the RAA. Thank you for calling my 
attention to your project. 

I am not at all in sysadmin work currently, only that each time I install 
something useful on my platform, it turns out to be .. well .. not useful 
at all until I do a scan for 'mswin' in the source and replace that with 
something else. Getting tired of that, hence the proposal. 

I think your library can happily coexist with platform.rb, and I will be 
looking at it to standardize (platform) nomenclature where possible. I 
don't think it should replace my proposal though, since it is a bit 
heavier, and the goal is to make usage threshold as small as possible. 

best regards, thanks for your answer, 
kaspar
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