Devel::Platform::Info

[James E Keenan]

On 5/31/11 1:12 PM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> The CPAN module Devel::Platform::Info looks interesting:

My admittedly quick try-out of this module suggests that it would not be 
particularly useful for Parrot at the present time.

The README 
(http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/BARBIE/Devel-Platform-Info-0.09/README) 
indicates that use of this module's public methods will return a hash 
with at least the following keys:

#####

              source
              archname
              osname
              osvers
              oslabel
              is32bit
              is64bit
              osflag

#####

Of these, only 3 are present in %PConfig -- and those have different 
values from what Devel::Platform::Info returns.  For example, comparing 
the two on my Linux VM:

# From Devel::Platform::Info
'archname' => 'i686',
'osname' => 'GNU/Linux',
'osvers' => '5.0.3',

# From lib/Parrot/Config/Generated.pm
'archname' => 'i686-linux',
'osname' => 'linux',
'osvers' => '2.6.18.8-linode22',

We'd probably have to do a lot of work to map what the module returns to 
what %PConfig needs.

I do, however, think that this distribution could be a useful starting 
point for new CPAN distributions that need to use OS-specific data.

Thank you very much.
kid51