On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:26:44 -0400 Nate Coraor <n...@bx.psu.edu> wrote: > > So I need a bit of guidance here. I've arbitrarily chosen some tags - > `rhel` for example - and wonder if, like PEP 425's mapping of Python > implementations to tags, a defined mapping of Linux distributions to > shorthand tags is necessary (of course this would be difficult to keep up > to date, but binary-compatibility.cfg would make it less relevant in the > long run). > > Alternatively, I could simply trust and normalize > platform.linux_distribution()[0],
In practice, the `platform` module does not really keep up to date with evolution in the universe of Linux distributions. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
