Platform Awareness / Option

[puerco]

When analyzing the dependencies of projects, the effective dependencies can change based on what platform the build is targeting. In order to cover those cases, we need to be able to do two things from any of the parsers:

1. Give the parsers a unified way of knowing which platform they are running on and
2. Create an option to specify the target platform so that each parser can pass a platform slug to the underlying tooling

[nishakm]

Does this need to be templated so those contributing parsers can follow a set pattern?

[puerco]

I'm thinking on adding an options mechanism to the parsers once they are stable. To detect the platform I will add a help function somewhere that they can reuse to get the info.

[ba11b0y]

What if we add

• A function SetPlatform and a field Platform to the Plugin interface
• Once Platform is set, the parser can read and pass the same to the underlying tooling