Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] DiStRo nAmInG and code reliance

[Bryan G. <bry...@hp...>]

Bruno,

> Just wanted to add Mandriva/Mandrake which is a mess in itself :-(

Oops, yes, a total oversight, sorry.  We'll probably rely/expand some
on our "distmap" table.

> > So, I was wondering about this possibility.  In the code, should we perhaps
> > do all our checks as "DISTRO" or maybe "distro" and then frontend all of
> > our parsing with the respective toupper or tolower functions to be as
> > liberal with inputs, and strict with outputs?
> 
> Applause !!! THat would help me a lot in what I'm trying to do outside
> of LinuxCOE and hopefully inside soon.
> 
> As an old-time Unix user, I'm inclined towards lc myself, but I don't
> care as long as we can standardize on a single one and use it everywhere
> ! We could even consider using that distro-release file under /etc to
> get more info (except for Ubuntu which decided to not create one :-()

As noted, I'm suggesting we accept all case(s) as input, and just
use one standard internally (which actually becomes immaterial to
most all users then.  So:

	Fedora
	fedora
	fEDORA
	...
	(even if not consistent across all inputs)

would all be acceptable as configuration values.

> Excellent initiative. Just hope it doesn't create too much problem at
> the code level.

Easy to suggest it, now will have to access/implement it,

bryang