This comes from Issue 11340 <http://bugs.python.org/issue11340>.

Adding support for Arch Linux to platform.linux_distributions() will allow   a distutils test to be skipped for Arch. The Arch Linux website: http://www.archlinux.org/

Please provide a patch for review.

Thanks.

Patch.

I forgot to say, Arch Linux is rolling release so it doesn't have a version or id.

Westley Martínez wrote:
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> Westley Martínez <anikom15@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> I forgot to say, Arch Linux is rolling release so it doesn't have a version or id.

Ok, but then what's the output of the function on Arch Linux (with the
patch) ?

('arch', '', '')

Westley Martínez wrote:
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> Westley Martínez <anikom15@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> ('arch', '', '')

I've had a look at http://www.archlinux.org/download/ which does list
a release version (currently 2010.05).

Could you try to get that into the function's output for Arch Linux ?

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That's the release version for the installation disc.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. That release version isn't for the system. It's for the installation disc. There's no way to get that info and it means nothing to anyone anyways. All users of Arch are expected to have their system fully up to date. There are no releases; Just do "pacman -Syu" and the system is made up to date.

If today's multi-site message is not a joke, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, Grml, and openSUSE are about to be joined into the Canterbury distribution.

And we all laughed :)

Westley Martínez wrote:
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> Westley Martínez <anikom15@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> Perhaps I wasn't clear. That release version isn't for the system. It's for the installation disc. There's no way to get that info and it means nothing to anyone anyways. All users of Arch are expected to have their system fully up to date. There are no releases; Just do "pacman -Syu" and the system is made up to date.

Interesting. In that case, I guess version and id don't make sense
for Arch Linux.

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Is there anything preventing the patch from being committed?

Feature freeze just came by; sorry we missed this.

Given our recent-ish discussion about additions to mimetypes (and the consensus (IIRC) that matching the IANA database can be considered a bug fix), I wonder if detecting more OSes in platform should be considered a new feature.  On one end we have mimetypes when there is just a dictionary update with no risk, on the other end we have ports to new OSes which clearly are new features; I think platform is on the fence, maybe just a bit on the new feature side.

New changeset 97a098aa4205 by Georg Brandl in branch 'default':
Closes #11678: support Arch linux in the platform module.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/97a098aa4205

Éric Araujo wrote:
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> Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> added the comment:
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> Feature freeze just came by; sorry we missed this.
> 
> Given our recent-ish discussion about additions to mimetypes (and the consensus (IIRC) that matching the IANA database can be considered a bug fix), I wonder if detecting more OSes in platform should be considered a new feature.  On one end we have mimetypes when there is just a dictionary update with no risk, on the other end we have ports to new OSes which clearly are new features; I think platform is on the fence, maybe just a bit on the new feature side.

I'm fine with adding new OS support to platform in bugfix releases.

The idea is to support as many platforms as possible and if a popular
one is missing, that's a bug.

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