Ned Deily wrote:
It states in PEP 345 that "the OS and CPU for which the binary distribution was compiled" is described in the Supported-Platform field. It also says that the semantic of that field are not specified by this PEP. Presumably the value returned by distutils.get_platform() would be used for this field and would continue to be used as is current practice with setuptools/Distribute to qualify binary egg names, for instance.
Specifically, it says:
Binary distributions containing a PKG-INFO file will use the Supported-Platform field in their metadata to specify the OS and CPU for which the binary distribution was compiled. The semantics of the Supported-Platform field are not specified in this PEP.
Just to be clear, "semantics" refers to "what does this mean?" If the semantics are not specified, then we don't know what it means, and the field does not contain any useful information. Either the semantics should be defined, or the field should be removed.
So, what is this field for? Can we give it a useful definition? Mark S. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
