Re: beta5 ...

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber writes:
>
> > http://hub.org/~vev/regress.php
> >
> > What other info is needed to distinguish these systems?
>
> The operating systems should be ordered by some key other than maybe
> author's preference. ;-)

Actually it's more random than by preference. FreeBSD came first 'cuze
I run it and I always list it first (and alphabetically it comes before
Linux). I then kept the bsds together, but those were actually added
last. Some of the others came from looking at the directory where the
FAQs reside and going in that order.

> Linux needs to be split into one for each distribution.

I need a list of them since the only ones I can think of are redhat, suse
and slackware (does slackware even still exist?).

> 'Sun' should probably be SunOS.

Ok.

> Also of interest:
>
> - config.guess output

comes later. This is mainly for machine identification. But it is noted
since I didn't think of it.

> - Linker version
>
> - GNU make version
>
> - configure command line (`pg_config --configure`)

Comes later.

> Bison version is probably not interesting, since anything but 1.28 is not
> to be considered serious.
>
> 'Platform' could be better named 'CPU type'. 'CPU speed' and 'Total RAM'
> are probably not interesting for anything but statistics.

Changed platform.

> 'libc' version is probably not interesting for anything but Linux? If
> so, it is already implied if you name the distributor.

And if someone upgrades libc? I add that 'cuze when a friend of mine was
using redhat for his isp (quite a while ago) someone upgraded his libc for
him - what a mess that made!

Vince.
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