Re: [ANN] List_Image v0.2.0

[briot.emmanuel@gmail.com]

> Ada defined System.System_Name for this sort of purpose, but since it is a 
> constant and it is implementation-defined, it is is of limited use for this 
> purpose.

Apparently GNAT uses it to indicate the "compilation system":

   type Name is (SYSTEM_NAME_GNAT);
   System_Name : constant Name := SYSTEM_NAME_GNAT;

So not very useful in our context either.


Apparently, it has no publicly available entity that would provide that information,
either, so a lot of projects simply do:

   Is_Windows : constant Boolean :=
         GNAT.OS_Lib.Directory_Separator := '\';

Does Janus/Ada have a similar directory_separator somewhere ? Seems like this kind of constant should be standard somewhere. Claiming Ada code is portable is nice (and
mostly true), but I believe almost all  multi-platform projects end up with such a
requirement, in practice, if only to properly handle file names.
If thought Ada.Directories might help here, but apparently not.

Emmanuel