FEAT: support for other Operating Systems

[Vyvy-vi]

Description:

It would be great if we could extend this to other OSs:

• macOS
• Linux

Proposed approach:

Using sys.platform (or os.name) for finding which os file-system is running the script, and formatting the folder paths accordingly.

Would I be interested in working on this issue:

• yes

[mikeysan]

Great idea @Vyvy-vi

Please go ahead and raise a PR.

I would ask that you please comment your code to help me and others understand your changes.

[Vyvy-vi]

Slight update: This seems to work on other operating systems :)
(only the initial chgDir path needs to be altered to UNIX format)

I should have tested before opening an issue 🤦

[mikeysan]

I would still like to automate that bit somewhat.

I was actually thiniking I could ask the user to supply the full dev path as an input.

So one would still run the script using script.py folder, but the script willl then ask for a path from the user.
Depending on what platform you are on, you would provide a "/home/user/whatever" or "/Users/user/whatever" path and the folder argument will be created within that path.

Does that make sense?

That might be tough for Windows that needs he double slashes, though, but that's what I was thinking of doing later.

[Vyvy-vi]

that sounds good 👍

[mikeysan]

You may want to do a git pull as I have created a new file which has the building blocks to what we're talking about.