Replacing the "- name: All" platform wildcard

[Martin Graesslin]

On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 11:18:40 AM CEST Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 11:01:14 AM CEST Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 10:16:19 AM CEST Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > > 
> > > in preparation for getting information about Android as supported
> > > platform
> > > on api.kde.org, I would like to purge the "- name: All" platform
> > > wildcard
> > > 
> > > from all metainfo.yaml files and replace it by:
> > >     - name: Linux
> > >     - name: Windows
> > >     - name: MacOSX
> > 
> > As you are preparing this for Android: is the name Linux correct, if yes
> > what is it supposed to tell us? That it works on GNU/Linux, but not on
> > Android/ Linux or that it works on Linux/X11, but not on Linux/Android?
> 
> Hi, sorry for the confusion. This is only a preparation step that does not
> change any logic in apidox, but just removes the All wildcard.
> In a second step, I want to add the Android information with "- name:
> Android" for the about 15 frameworks that already work with Android.
> The wildcard has to be removed first, since otherwise all frameworks would
> declare to support Android once the overview page says that we (partially)
> support Android.

there's no confusion. I did understand that. But as Android is clearly I'm 
questioning what Linux is supposed to tell us and whether it's better to 
directly change it with something which better expresses the Linux but not 
Android condition. After all it cannot be about the kernel.

Cheers
Martin
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