CTAN update: ifplatform
Date: September 10, 2009 4:43:05 PM CEST
the moving finger writes:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ifplatform
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ifplatform
> Summary description: Conditionals to detect the platform (Windows/Linux/Mac OS X/etc.)
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Updated version of ifplatform now behaves correctly in TeX Live 2009 on
> Windows and MiKTeX 2.8. Also now provides \ifcygwin for users of Cygwin.
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i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue; thanks for
the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ifplatform.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ifplatform
of course, the catalogue entry will change overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
ifplatform – Conditionals to test which platform is being used
This package uses the (La)TeX extension -shell-escape to establish whether the document is being processed on a Windows or on a Unix-like system (Mac OS X, Linux, etc.), or on Cygwin (Unix environment over a windows system).
Booleans provided are:
- \ifwindows,
- \iflinux,
- \ifmacosx and
- \ifcygwin.
The package also preserves the output of uname on a Unix-like system, which may be used to distinguish between various classes of Unix systems.
| Package | ifplatform |
| Version | 0.4a 2017-10-13 |
| Maintainer | Johannes Große Will Robertson |