[FEATURE] Add macOS/Darwin option to dotter.os variable

[Nico-Mayer]

Hey, first of all, thanks for the great project I really enjoy using it!

Some of my dotfiles contain configurations that are specific to macOS and end up breaking things on Linux. Currently(ssh config), it isn’t possible to distinguish between the two in the templating system, since dotter.os only supports windows and unix.

I think it would be very helpful to add a dedicated option for macOS to allow more finegrained templating.

The desired behavior would look like this:

• dotter.os == windows → true on Windows
• dotter.os == unix → true on Linux and macOS
• dotter.os == macos → true only on macOS

I’m not sure if it would also make sense to add an explicit option for Linux, or if that would be unnecessary but having macos available would already solve the issue.

Kind regards

[SuperCuber]

I agree that it's an issue but this will break any setup that depends on dotter.os == unix on mac 🤔

WDYT about adding dotter.unix_flavor that will equal macos and linux, and have null on windows?

[Nico-Mayer]

I don’t think it would break current macOS setups if

dotter.os == unix were still true for both macOS and Linux.

Then, these additional new options could be used to allow for more fine-grained control:

• dotter.os == macos → only true on macOS
• dotter.os == linux → only true on Linux

Thanks for your answer and considering this change :)

EDIT: Your idea with dotter.unix_flavor obviously would also be fine for me :)

[SuperCuber]

#202 i had another idea

[Nico-Mayer]

I am unfortunately not very proficient in Rust yet. What exactly would these changes enable? 😄

[SuperCuber]

adds four variables:

dotter.unix
dotter.windows
dotter.linux
dotter.macos

each of them equal to true/false depending on the operating system

without touching the current dotter.os variable

[SuperCuber]

Released in latest version