[Mono-list] Runtime Platform Conditional Magic

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Feb-2004, Samuel Kaufman <skaufman@elite.net> wrote:
> What would be the best way for an application to check if it's running
> in Windows or another OS with Mono?

The best way is not to check for a specific OS, since code which checks
for specific operating systems is inherently non-portable.
Instead, it is better to check for the presence of the specific feature(s)
that your code needs to worry about (e.g. for path name syntax
use System.IO.Path.DirectorySeparatorChar, etc.)

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