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Author lemburg
Recipients lemburg, stefw, tarek
Date 2009-09-24.15:56:58
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Stef Walter wrote:
> 
> Stef Walter <stef@memberwebs.com> added the comment:
> 
> I agree with your comments, and the solution you're proposing solves the 
> problem (and several others) for the long term. 
> 
> However in the short term, could this patch be committed? Most other OS's 
> (including openbsd and netbsd) have OS specific code in get_platform(). 
> FreeBSD is notably missing from that function. 

The code in get_platform() tries to gather as much information as
possible regarding a platform, rather than limiting the amount of
information.

That's why there are so many entries for the various OSes.

Please contact the maintainer of easy_install to get it fixed
to handle the specific FreeBSD case. For other systems they will
likely have to apply similar patches, e.g. for Mac OS X, Sun,
AIX, etc. - all of these include version and release information
in the get_platform() output.

Regarding a short term fix, there's no a lot we can do: the next
Python release is 2.7 and changing this for 2.6 is out of the question,
since it would break other tools that rely on the established
naming scheme.

easy_install has a different release cycle, so it's easier
to get a fix for it, or just apply one yourself.
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Date User Action Args
2009-09-24 15:56:59lemburgsetrecipients: + lemburg, tarek, stefw
2009-09-24 15:56:58lemburglinkissue6983 messages
2009-09-24 15:56:58lemburgcreate