feat: better solution to support FreeBSD in the future (#1148)

* Support Inotify on FreeBSD 15+

* Revise changelog for version 6.0.0 updates

Updated changelog to reflect recent changes and contributions.

* Better solution that's forward compatible

* Apply suggestions from code review

* Update changelog.rst

* Apply suggestion from @BoboTiG

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Co-authored-by: Mickaël Schoentgen <contact@tiger-222.fr>

Author: blitztide

changelog.rst

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Changelog
 
 **Other Changes**
 
-- [freebsd] Supports ``inotify`` on FreeBSD 15. (`#1147 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/1147>`__)
+- [freebsd] Supports ``inotify`` on FreeBSD 15+. (`#1147 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/1147>`__)
 - [core] Adjust ``Observer.schedule()`` ``path`` type annotation to reflect the ``pathlib.Path`` support. (`#1096 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/1096>`__)
 - [core] Add support for the ``follow_symlink`` keyword argument to ``ObservedWatch``. (`#1086 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/1086>`__)
 - [fsevents] Add support for the ``follow_symlink`` keyword argument. (`#1086 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/1086>`__)

src/watchdog/utils/platform.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import sys
+import sys, os
 
 PLATFORM_WINDOWS = "windows"
 PLATFORM_LINUX = "linux"
@@ -19,10 +19,14 @@ def get_platform_name() -> str:
     if sys.platform.startswith("linux"):
         return PLATFORM_LINUX
 
-    if sys.platform == "freebsd15": # FreeBSD 15+ supports inotify
-        return PLATFORM_LINUX
+    if sys.platform.startswith("freebsd"):
+        release = os.uname().release
+        major = int(release.split(".", 1)[0])
+        if major >= 15:
+            return PLATFORM_LINUX  # FreeBSD 15+ have full inotify support
+        return PLATFORM_BSD
 
-    if sys.platform.startswith(("dragonfly", "freebsd", "netbsd", "openbsd", "bsd")):
+    if sys.platform.startswith(("dragonfly", "netbsd", "openbsd", "bsd")):
         return PLATFORM_BSD
 
     return PLATFORM_UNKNOWN