On 2007-08-15, Isaac Dupree
Aaron Denney wrote:
None of the existing OSes get subtypes... what if "Other" is also standalone, not having a String argument (and whenever someone wants to detect some other OS, I guess they petition to have the enumeration expanded and it will be promptly) - how is that on the problem scale??
It looks like a problem to me. If nothing else, as it expands, old packages get nasty warnings about incomplete pattern matches on old systems, and still don't work on new systems, as the package doesn't know how to handle this case.
One should never have a case for "Other" anyway. Either
Right. I meant adding OSes as they appear doesn't work well, not the case of Other having a string argument. -- Aaron Denney -><-