On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:26:44 -0400
> Nate Coraor <n...@bx.psu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > So I need a bit of guidance here. I've arbitrarily chosen some tags -
> > `rhel` for example - and wonder if, like PEP 425's mapping of Python
> > implementations to tags, a defined mapping of Linux distributions to
> > shorthand tags is necessary (of course this would be difficult to keep up
> > to date, but binary-compatibility.cfg would make it less relevant in the
> > long run).
> >
> > Alternatively, I could simply trust and normalize
> > platform.linux_distribution()[0],
>
> In practice, the `platform` module does not really keep up to date with
> evolution in the universe of Linux distributions.
>
Understandable, although so far it's doing a pretty good job:
('Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server', '6.5', 'Santiago')
('CentOS', '6.7', 'Final')
('CentOS Linux', '7.1.1503', 'Core')
('Scientific Linux', '6.2', 'Carbon')
('debian', '6.0.10', '')
('debian', '7.8', '')
('debian', '8.1', '')
('debian', 'stretch/sid', '')
('Ubuntu', '12.04', 'precise')
('Ubuntu', '14.04', 'trusty')
('Fedora', '21', 'Twenty One')
('SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ', '11', 'x86_64')
('Gentoo Base System', '2.2', '')
platform.linux_distribution(full_distribution_name=False) might be nice but
it made some bad assumptions, e.g. on Scientific Linux it returned the
platform as 'redhat'.
--nate
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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