[Mono-dev] Why does Environment.OSVersion.Platform report PlatformID.Unix on OS X?

[Uli Hertlein]

On 14/11/2011 14:36, Rodrigo Kumpera wrote:
 > Originally .NET had no enum value for OSX and we returned Unix.
 > Then, when it was introduced by microsoft, we tried to switch to the
 > new value but too much stuff broke. We never tried again ever since a 
 > couple of years ago.

Thanks for the explanation Rodrigo!
Do you remember, did it break things in Mono, or applications?

At this time this makes it necessary to implement work-arounds in code 
that is shared between .NET/Mono and Silverlight.

I'm curious, what is everyone's favourite kludge to detect OS X on Mono? 
  The reason I'm asking is that my code wants to check /Volumes on OS X 
and other locations on Windows and Linux.

Cheers,
/uli