Re: [Boost-testing] Re: It's nice to be "special" but....

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-13 12:02:22

At Wednesday 2005-04-13 00:25, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
>Rene Rivera writes:
> > Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote:
> >> I guess it's nice being in a new category all by myself, but I'm
> >> kinda puzzled over it.
> >> Why do we now have
> >> Microsoft (LaruCorp)
> >> Win32 (sslapeta, slapeta2, mslater, metacommm)
> >> Microsoft Windows (RudbekAssociates)
> >> instead of just Win32 like we used to?
> >> I don't see any advantage to spreading out the results.
> >
> > I guess it's this change..
> >
> > http://build.redshift-software.com:9990/changes/157
> >
> > The differences are probably from using the OSs idea of the platform
> > name.
>
>More likely the Python interpretator's idea of the platform name --
>for me, 'platform.system()' + ActiveState Python 2.3.2 consistently
>return "Windows" under all three modern variations of the OS (XP,
>2000 and 2003).
>
> > You run XP, which reports itself as "Microsft Windows".
> > LaruCorp runs, Win2K3, which reports itself as "Microsoft" only.
>
>If that's the case, it's a bug in the interpreter. Carl, could you
>please check what 'platform.system()' returns for you?

just ran a check on my other system (the one with EMail on it)  WinXP pro 
sp2 (but only a PIII):
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\vawjr>python
Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct  2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import platform
 >>> print platform.system()
Microsoft Windows

here's from the Athlon64 (that the regression tests run on:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\vawjr>python
Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct  2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import platform
 >>> print platform.system()
Microsoft Windows

looks a lot the same

Hmmm, I installed 2.4.1 and..... (on the PIII):
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\vawjr>python
Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import platform
 >>> print platform.system()
Windows

which looks more promising (I guess).... I'll update the Athlon and maybe 
we'll have one less category by the next run.

> > My guess would be that when the other Win32 testers post results
> > they'll fall onto those two buckets.
>
>Yes, "win32" category should go away as soon as the corresponding
>runners upload new results. Of course I was hoping for just one _new_
>platform name ("Windows") as well, but it seems that we are not going
>to get it for free.
>
> >
> > Don't know what Alexey's intent was though.
>
>The intent was to have reports to display more presentable names for
>the platforms -- "Linux" instead of "linux2", "Solaris" instead of
>"sunos5", etc.
>
>--
>Aleksey Gurtovoy
>MetaCommunications Engineering
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