Message7927

Author	fwierzbicki
Recipients	amak, fwierzbicki, oberstet, pjac, zyasoft
Date	2013-03-08.20:17:12
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Back when it was implemented, os.name being Java made sense as the original Jython was attempting to be OS unaware as Java had been doing at the time. Now that things have changed (we have a growing posix layer for example) it really doesn't make sense anymore, so I think it is now a bug. Unfortunately there is to much history here for changing in 2.x. I plan to make os.name properly point to the real underlying OS in 3.x. For now we have os._name that points to the real OS. I think we will probably keep that as an alias in 3.x for backwards compatibility.

Back when it was implemented, os.name being Java made sense as the original Jython was attempting to be OS unaware as Java had been doing at the time. Now that things have changed (we have a growing posix layer for example) it really doesn't make sense anymore, so I think it is now a bug. Unfortunately there is to much history here for changing in 2.x. I plan to make os.name properly point to the real underlying OS in 3.x.

For now we have os._name that points to the real OS. I think we will probably keep that as an alias in 3.x for backwards compatibility.

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