Georg Wrede wrote:

> Seems I remembered there was an inconsistency, but not what.
> 
> :-)   (Could it be that Walter is a Windows person?)   :-)

No, it's some kind of legacy from some old C compiler...


I think the current platform "version"s are a bit limited
anyway, since they focus on the running operating system.
(so for DMD, that is either "Windows" or "linux" <sic> -
and for GDC it's : linux/cygwin/freebsd/darwin/solaris)

Probably would better to target APIs, like Win32 and Posix ?
That would also mean that you could cross-compile to a different
target, by using for instance the Wine libraries (or something) ?
(http://www.winehq.com/ has most of the Win32 libs, for Unix)


But that's a greater change than just changing the spelling
from Windows to windows, for "consistency" over platforms...

See also http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DocComments/Version
(for some reason the non-DMD version take ages to appear in the spec)

--anders