Message142410
> Sure, you can compile and run Python on both versions of Linux, but
> what if your application uses features that are only present in Linux
> 3.0 and later ?
This comment is making me think you've missed just how irrelevant kernel version 3.0 really is. To a first approximation, it *has no new features*. Now, to be sure, there are a couple of things, sure. Just like there were a couple new features in 2.6.39 two months earlier, 2.6.38 two months before that, 2.6.37 two months before that, and so on, every 2-3 months, back to the release of 2.6.7 or so in 2004.
> BTW: The new attribute should contain the complete version number,
> not just the major version. `uname -r` would provide a good start.
To be useful, that would have to be a runtime-computed thing, not the build-time value that sys.platform's trailing number is. But we already have that: os.uname(). It certainly doesn't need a second name. |
|
Date |
User |
Action |
Args |
2011-08-19 00:51:01 | foom | set | recipients:
+ foom, lemburg, loewis, barry, doko, amaury.forgeotdarc, gagern, pitrou, vstinner, jwilk, djc, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, Arfrever, r.david.murray, dmalcolm, sandro.tosi, rosslagerwall, python-dev, petri.lehtinen, Ramchandra Apte |
2011-08-19 00:51:00 | foom | set | messageid: <1313715060.55.0.59098261673.issue12326@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2011-08-19 00:50:59 | foom | link | issue12326 messages |
2011-08-19 00:50:58 | foom | create | |
|