[Gambas-bugtracker] Bug #2442: Add a System.system which makes available at runtime which os is used

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http://gambaswiki.org/bugtracker/edit?object=BUG.2442&from=L21haW4-

Comment #2 by Brian G:

It may be better to use /etc/os_release as this is also the standard for most releases BSD as well.
And has been adopted by freeBsd as well as far as I can see.

Would it not be possible to allow the ID from the OS_release file be the system.system property?

This would be a great help from implementation point of view?

Would it be possible to perhaps add an os class which represents the info from this file as a collection?

if OS!ID == "linuxmint" then
   print OS!PRETTY_NAME;;"Like ";;OS!ID_LIKE
endif
Linux Mint 20.2 Like ubuntu


if OS!ID == "dragonfly" then 
   print OS!PRETTY_NAME ;; "On :";; OS!MACHINE
endif
DragonFlyBSD 6.3-SYNTH On x86_64

Brian G changed the state of the bug to: NeedsInfo.