On Wednesday, January 13, 2010, at 04:15PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>
>> 2) On OS X, the modification to the value returned by
>> pkg_resources.get_platform() isn't correct for fat version of Python
>> 2.5, as detailed in setuptools issue 19.  To solve that, we're using the
>> patch I submitted to the issue (with a couple recent changes).
>
>I think that using "fat" in the version string is wrong for
>Mac OS X, since there are many ways to build fat binaries.
>
>Instead, the version string should include the details of
>all included builds, ie. 'x86', 'x64', 'ppc', 'ppc64'.

Maybe in the long run, but for now "fat" has a well-defined meaning for 
distutils: fat == ppc + x86_64. There is also a number of other variants, as 
described in the documentation for distutils.

Ronald
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