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On 05/24/2017 03:58 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote: > I've just pushed my last set of reviews of perldelta. > > A couple of things I wasn't clear about. > > In > =head2 Platform-Specific Notes > > there are separate entries for > > =item Darwin > =item OS X > =item macOS (specifially macOS 10.12) > > Are all these essentially the same platform? (I'm not very familiar with > Macs). OS X is the previous name for macOS. Darwin is the core components for the macOS operating system. (I was confused by this and had to look it up.) I merged all of them under Darwin, assuming the differences are not enough to matter. Objections? > > Similarly, there are separate entries for > > =item Windows > =item Win32 > > should these all be under 'Windows'? Win32 is the name of the Windows API for 32bit-specific stuff. Also a subtle difference since Win32 is often used instead for Windows. I merged this under Windows. Both available in: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/5651e078090497bfe95725c003ac78d37a777889Thread Previous | Thread Next