# File lib/more/facets/platform.rb, line 175
  def =~(other)
    case other
    when Platform then # nop
    when String then
      # This data is from http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/yaml on 19 Aug 2007
      other = case other
        when /^i686-darwin(\d)/ then     ['x86',       'darwin',  $1]
        when /^i\d86-linux/ then         ['x86',       'linux',   nil]
        when 'java', 'jruby' then        [nil,         'java',    nil]
        when /mswin32(\_(\d+))?/ then    ['x86',       'mswin32', $2]
        when 'powerpc-darwin' then       ['powerpc',   'darwin',  nil]
        when /powerpc-darwin(\d)/ then   ['powerpc',   'darwin',  $1]
        when /sparc-solaris2.8/ then     ['sparc',     'solaris', '2.8']
        when /universal-darwin(\d)/ then ['universal', 'darwin',  $1]
        else                             other
      end

      other = Platform.new other
    else
      return nil
    end

    self === other
  end