Subject: bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:18:27 -0400

> I think, as a temporary solution, we should make the docstrings of all
> the affected functions and variables the same.  If necessary, they can
> say somehthing like, "On Windows, this does X.  On Nexstep, this does
> Y", and so on.

That sounds OK as a quick temporary solution.  The longer-term solution
is to say that such variables defined in various places are bugs.
I.e. the definition should be moved to a common file.

        Stefan