Currently, Python Eggs and EasyInstall use distutils.get_platform() to tag platform-specific eggs. However, I've heard that this string isn't all that useful on some platforms. (For example, I gather that it's pretty useless info on Mac OS X.) Also, some things might in principle be compatible, even though they have a different platform string. For example, a 'linux-i586' build should in principle be usable on a 'linux-i686' machine, right?
Does anybody have more familiarity with the subtleties of binary compatibility, such that we could maybe devise a better platform string approach *before* the existing string is so widely used that it'll be difficult to change? _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
