On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:17 AM, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Besides a well-defined ABI, if usc2/usc4 + 32/64 bits distinction on >> some platforms >> already fixes a numbers of use cases, I think could worth it for 2.7/3.2 > > What bothers me is that get_platform is the wrong function for this - > it is also likely that changing its behavior may break existing > extensions and build scripts (as get_platform is used to generate some > "distributions" names). > > If a function to qualify an ABI on a specific platform is needed, it > should be a new function IMHO. >
I had a backward compatible mode in mind, maybe with a boolean option like "detailed". Because at the end, If i understand the need correctly, it will be used where get_platform() is used today > > David > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
