Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 22-sep-2005, at 5:26, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> The platform module has a way to map system names such as returned by >> uname() to marketing names. It maps SunOS to Solaris, for example. But >> it doesn't map Darwin to Mac OS X. I think I know how to map Darwin >> version numbers to OS X version numbers: from >> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ it is clear that OS X >> 10.a.b corresponds to Darwin (a+4).b, except for OS X versions <= >> 10.1. I'd be happy to write the code and add it to system_alias() in >> platform.py. Is this a good idea? > > > There's no good reason to assume that the mapping from kernel version > to marketing version will stay the same in the future. The savest way > to get the marketing version of the currently running OSX is to run / > usr/sbin/sw_vers and parse its output. There might also be a public API > for getting the same information. Py2app, and specifically the > bdist_mpkg component of that, contains code to parse sw_vers output.
I don't have access to Macs, so there nothing much I can say about this. In general, it's always better to rely on system tools for finding the marketing name of an OS than to try to come up with a work-around. If gestalt() returns the proper name, then this should be used. If sw_vers provides a more reliable way to do this, parsing its output seems like a better idea. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 22 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
