As you noticed, this would mean a completely different line of code
I believe the author is not a native speaker, and means to say that this would require different code for each platform. Sure, that must be true, but the GitLab and GitHub APIs are not that dissimilar.
I felt like this was a very strange response to a legitimate question and it makes me feel like there must be something more there.
https://github.com/cla-assistant/cla-assistant/issues/534
Very terse answer that says:
I believe the author is not a native speaker, and means to say that this would require different code for each platform. Sure, that must be true, but the GitLab and GitHub APIs are not that dissimilar.I felt like this was a very strange response to a legitimate question and it makes me feel like there must be something more there.