new status output

[Aaron Bentley]

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Jan Hudec wrote:
> There could be a '--compatibility' option, that would mean 'act as if
> os.name was this'. So: --compatibility=posix for the scripting interface
> and --compatibility=nt for the windows one.

At the risk of overengineering, maybe we should
1. add a Platform object to osutils.  It would have members describing
the various platform features.
2. instantiate an osutils.platform global at import time (it's cheap)
3. provide equivalent-sematincs versions of all the functions that vary
by platform.  (This is easier for us, because we only need specific
semantics.  Ultimately don't care whether we create a hard link or copy
a file, for example.)
4. override osutils.platform as needed.  (Run scripts/tests on Unix with
osutils.platform=Win32Platform?)

Aaron
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