vendor: update kardianos/osext to support android

[arno01]

In order to get rid of Couldn't start Terraform: ExecPath not implemented for android

[apparentlymart]

Hi @arno01!

I'm happy to merge this since it seems like a harmless and useful update in general, but I'm also curious to understand what your motivations are here... Android isn't a supported platform for Terraform and we don't have any testing procedures for it, so it's likely that future versions of Terraform will inadvertently break Android compatibility in other ways.

[arno01]

Hi @apparentlymart , I know that Android isn't a supported platform for Terraform, but with this PR Terraform is actually working on Android. Since the PR is harmless, I bet some people who use Android for their work would be happy to see Terraform is just working.

My main motivation is that I switched to Android device (Samsung DeX) for work and am really happy about it, so Terraform would be one of the last missing pieces for me :-)

And I don't understand why Android (ARM) isn't a supported platform for Terraform? Can this be changed?

[apparentlymart]

Each new platform we support adds additional maintenence and testing overhead and requires us to have infrastructure on which to test, so we need to prioritize which platforms serve the most users. If there were a significant number of people wanting to run Terraform on Android then it could change, but you are the first person that's ever mentioned attempting it!

For now I will merge this, since as I said it's a harmless change to merge, but I can't promise that all future versions of Terraform will continue to build on Android without further changes. As long as it continues to work without any extra effort we certainly won't make any effort to stop you building it on Android, and if a larger cohort of Android users develops we can discuss finding ways for us to do automated testing against Android, writing up installation instructions, and other such things that users expect for officially-supported platforms.

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