Christian Heimes added the comment: > I am writing a patch but I have a few questions: > > 1) There are at most three places where the distribution name can be > found. What is the priority order to select only one name ? > The three places are: > a) Inside the /etc/lsb-release file > b) In the name of the /etc/<distrib>-release file > c) In the content of the /etc/<distrib>-release file
As far as I remember the specs a /etc/*-release file has a higher priority than /etc/lsb-release. > 2) Can I remove supported_dists parameter of platform.dist ? > There could be a list of supported distributions but why > as a parameter of this function ? I agree. A module global list is better than a list as a function argument. Can you also use a global variable instead of "/etc"? Something like ETC_DIR = "/etc" for example. It would allow you to ship samples from several distribution and run unit tests against each. Christian __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1322> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
