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Author pitrou
Recipients Arfrever, amaury.forgeotdarc, djc, doko, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, jwilk, lemburg, loewis, neologix, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, python-dev, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, vstinner
Date 2011-07-19.23:26:16
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Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 23:20 +0000, STINNER Victor a écrit :
> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> 
> > Your patch looks fine to me, except for this:
> > -        if (platform in ('linux2', 'freebsd4', 'freebsd5', 'freebsd6',
> > -                        'freebsd7', 'freebsd8')
> > -            or platform.startswith("gnukfreebsd")):
> > +        if os.uname()[0] in ('Linux', 'FreeBSD'):
> > 
> > Why not use platform.system(), to be consistent?
> 
> I'm not sure that thp platform module can be used in setup.py 
> (bootstrap issue?). It should be tested.

Why don't you just use platform.startswith? It would avoid introducing
bugs due to subtle differences between uname, platform or
platform.system.
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