On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>>  I'd be open to adding the
>> platform name to the tag, but I'd probably define it as part of the
>> implementation field, e.g. foo.cpython-linux2-32m.so.  Or maybe
>> start with the platform name, e.g.  foo.linux2-cpython-32m.  This
>> isn't a strong preference though.
>
>I don't have a strong opionion, but placing the platform name at the
>start is probably better to be consistent with
>sysconfig.get_platform().

What about the architecture (i386, amd64)?  With every increase in length I
start to get more concerned.  We could encode the platform and architecture,
but that gets into cryptic territory.  OTOH, would you really co-install i386
and amd64 shared libraries on the same machine?  (hello NFS ;).

-Barry

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