Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> added the comment:
There's a compatibility problem with changing the AIX distutils platform prefix
from aix to AIX: any existing code that does
"distutils.get_platform().startswith('aix')" will break. (There isn't any code
in the standard library that does that, it all checks sys.platform() instead,
but it's a reasonable assumption that there's going to be code in the wild that
does a prefix check on the distutils API output).
So I think we'll want to make the distinction between the two formats based on
the number of hyphens they contain, rather than changing the prefix.
I *haven't* made that change directly to the PR myself, as I want to give you a
chance to consider the question first, but I do think it's a required
compatibility improvement before we move ahead with this.
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