rust installation not shown properly on illumos

[Noratrieb]

What needs to be fixed?

navigator.platform: SunOS i86pc
navigator.appVersion: 5.0 (X11)

I am using x86_64-unknown-illumos, a tier 2 target with host tools. The unix installation method works (except I have to | bash instead of | sh which rustup-init.sh would have suggested when I ran it if it wasn't for rust-lang/rustup#3388)

I guess the user agent really badly reflects the fact that I am using illumos and not some ancient solaris so I'm not sure whether this is worth changing.

Page(s) Affected

https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

Suggested Improvement

Detect SunOS and mention that illumos has host tools. I'm not sure whether this is worth improving, but I'll open the issue anyways in case anyone else hits it too.

[Manishearth]

cc @hi-rustin @rbtcollins Is this an explicitly supported platform for Rustup, and if so should we include this on the website?

[rbtcollins]

Rustup doesn't really have explicitly supported or anything: we accept any (good condition) patches to help platforms move up tiers, and as that newly filed rustup bug on the installation script shows, illumos is closing in on having everything working.

I think detecting the correct platform and showing the normal download instructions would be good.

I don't know whether illumos should change their default user-agent a bit first or not, because SunOS 4.1 is 28 years old now...

Might it make sense to always show the curlsh pattern, but for unknown hosts include a caveat (that whether it will work or not will depend on whether that tier has complete host tool support?

[Manishearth]

I think that would be fine if the rustup team supports it.

Would be open to accepting such a change.