On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:03:59PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Here's my proposed change: > > ================= > The default platform tag is distutils.util.get_platform() with all > hyphens - and periods . replaced with underscore _ . If > /etc/os-release [N] exists on the system, then the values in the 'ID' > and 'VERSION_ID' fields are read, all hyphens - and periods . replaced > with underscore _ , and the results appended to the default tag after > a separating underscore." > > Examples: > > * win32 > * macosx_10_6_intel > * linux_x86_64_fedora_20 > * linux_x86_64_rhel_7_0 > * linux_x86_64_debian_7_0 > * linux_x86_64_ubuntu_14_04 > ================= > > The [N] reference would then be a reference to > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html for > the definition of the format of os-release. (Note that while the > format originated with systemd, plenty of distros have also started > providing it regardless of which init system they use) ... > This also won't help with older Linux distros that don't offer > /etc/os-release, but I'm OK with that - those can just continue to > show up as "linux_x86_64", and PyPI can continue to disallow those > uploads.
I was curious about what "older distros" meant in the context of Ubuntu,
so I looked it up: /etc/os-release exists in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (and
newer) but didn't exist in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ends in April 2015.
Marius Gedminas
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