petdance/scratch — Issue #444: Access system properties
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-14 06:07:56+00:00
State: open
Labels: configure, Pri-normal, Sev-medium, todo

To achieve portable applications we need a set of system properties.
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The most important ones are :[[BR]]
- User home directory[[BR]]
- User information (name ...)[[BR]]
- File path separator[[BR]]
- Temporary directory[[BR]]
- System locale[[BR]]
- System encoding[[BR]]
- System time zone[[BR]]
- System line separator (e.g., "\n" on UNIX, "\r\n" for Windows)[[BR]]
- Name of the operating system[[BR]]
- System architecture i386, x64 ...[[BR]]

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/2177