Add support for more Operating systems

[blavejr]

Currently the program only works for windows, if anyone could add support for more operating systems that would be highly appreciated. Mac OS, Ubuntu etc.. anything you are comfortable with. :)

[joeryan]

I will take a look and see what I might be able to help with.

[blavejr]

@joeryan Great man that would be highly appreciated. 👍

[angshumukherjee100]

Hey @blavejr
I would try to add support for Ubuntu.

[blavejr]

@angshumukherjee100 that would be great man, give it a crack.

[Rohithgilla12]

Hey is this issue still open?
I would like to take it up for ubuntu

[thedevtoolsmith]

Hi is the project still active?
I would like to add support for MacOS

[ghost]

Would love to add support for Linux (Ubuntu), let me know if this is still open.

[blavejr]

Hi @safderareepattamannil I think someone added support for Linux a while back but it could also have been for mac? I am not sure but right now I am sure that it runs on Windows and Mac, but what you could do is try and run it on your flavour of Linux and see what happens.

I think its just a check somewhere for the os, I haven't looked at the code for a while tbh.

[ghost]

@blavejr , sure thing, I'll check on Linux and get back to you to confirm.

[KokoseiJ]

Fedora user here, I'll also take a look at the code to see if I can provide any help.

[chaps]

This might be something to start with these platform support tasks in order
to avoid performing OS checks for concatenating the OS filesystem paths:
#89

[KokoseiJ]

Oh, yeah, I overlooked that part...

Got it, merging it right away.

[un1u3]

Okie

[ghost]

Saw the issue was still open... Any help needed on support/testing for macOS or is that already added?

The specs of my Macbook.

[PARTHIB-DEB]

Solutions for the Multiple OS support problem #16

Hey I am Parthib , here are my 2 solutions -

TOX

• It's a Python library that is used to make a python project suitable accross all of its different versions and all types os. It focuses the problem "But it runs on my machine" , specially for Python. You can create a Tox file by tox.ini or pyproject.toml or setup.cfg. Although , I would suggest tox.ini is the best. If you have used pytest before , then you will get a similarity in making the tox.ini config file. Here is a demo description of tox.ini

[tox]
envlist = py38, py39, py310

[testenv]
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

[testenv:windows]
platform = win32
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

[testenv:linux]
platform = linux
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

[testenv:mac]
platform = darwin
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

As you can see it not only supports different python versions , but different OS and which command will be stacked in each of them. In short , you can consider it similar to makefile

PLATFORM

• It's a Python library that is directly maintained by PSF. By implementing this library , you can hardcode functionalities for each OS inside a python code. Unlike TOX , you don't have to make a seperate config file. But I will suggest if you want to strongly handle different OS, use TOX and PLATFORM as a team.
  Here is a demo of the duo -

# setup_env.py

import platform
import os

def set_os_env():
    os_name = platform.system().lower()
    if os_name.startswith('win'):
        os.environ['TOX_ENV_NAME'] = 'windows'
    elif os_name.startswith('linux'):
        os.environ['TOX_ENV_NAME'] = 'linux'
    elif os_name.startswith('darwin'):
        os.environ['TOX_ENV_NAME'] = 'mac'

if __name__ == "__main__":
    set_os_env()

[tox]
envlist = py38, py39, py310

[testenv]
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    python setup_env.py
    pytest

[testenv:windows]
platform = win32
setenv =
    TOX_ENV_NAME = windows
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

[testenv:linux]
platform = linux
setenv =
    TOX_ENV_NAME = linux
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

[testenv:mac]
platform = darwin
setenv =
    TOX_ENV_NAME = mac
deps = 
    pytest
commands = 
    pytest

Here you can see , based on the each OS 'TOX_ENV_NAME' environment variable got different values and TOX is supervising everything

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