On 23 Jul, 2010, at 11:54, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> 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 ;).

I don't need this, but then again I primarily use a platform where the vendor 
has 
a proper solution for having binaries for multiple architectures ;-)

Ronald

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