Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: The idea is to have similar functionality implemented as a PyPI package, which can be updated more often than the stdlib.
Unlike Windows and Mac OS X, the approach to finding out the distribution version is changing too often on Linux (w/r to how Python release cycles work). The problem is not complexity, it's maintainability. If you're confident that you can write the one and only implementation, feel free to do so. Put it on PyPI and we can point people to it once it has picked up a reasonable following we can point to it in the documentation. PS: I agree that the package name "ld" is not very intuitive. Perhaps Nir could change it to something more easily recognizable, such as "linux_distribution" :-) Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1322> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
