ruary 19, 2019 12:06 PM
To: Steve Dower ; python-dev@python.org
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Is distutils.util.get_platform() the "current" or the
"target" platform
> [Any reason for dropping python-dev?]
Sorry. just clicked the wrong button.
> And the answer is a resound
[Any reason for dropping python-dev?]
Sorry. just clicked the wrong button.
And the answer is a resounding "yes, it returns the target platform"? It seems
you're saying this, but the wording of your email sounds just enough of a question that
I'm not sure whether you are definitively answeri
On 16Feb.2019 0831, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 08:06, Steve Dower wrote:
>> I'm inclined to say that nobody but us uses this API :) Does that make
>> it seem more okay to "clarify" that it's returning target platform?
>
> I've always treated the situation as "Cross-compilation d
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 08:06, Steve Dower wrote:
> I'm inclined to say that nobody but us uses this API :) Does that make
> it seem more okay to "clarify" that it's returning target platform?
I've always treated the situation as "Cross-compilation doesn't work,
build on the target platform, using
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 2:02 PM Steve Dower wrote:
> On 14Feb2019 1147, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> > To alleviate confusion long term I'd love it if we could deprecate the
> > unqualified get_platform() API and point people towards always being
> > explicit about get_target_platform() vs get_curre
On 14Feb2019 1147, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
To alleviate confusion long term I'd love it if we could deprecate the
unqualified get_platform() API and point people towards always being
explicit about get_target_platform() vs get_current_platform().
This is an option too, though it doesn't reduce
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:38 AM Steve Dower wrote:
> As part of adding ARM32 support for Windows, we need to enable
> cross-compilation in distutils. This is easy enough, though it requires
> somehow getting the target platform as well as the current platform.
>
> Right now, the change at https:
As part of adding ARM32 support for Windows, we need to enable
cross-compilation in distutils. This is easy enough, though it requires
somehow getting the target platform as well as the current platform.
Right now, the change at https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/11774
adds a get_target_pl
