Yann Cointepas 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 For instance, on Mandriva 2007.1 the possible names are: a) 'MandrivaLinux' b) 'mandriva' c) 'Mandriva Linux' I would suggest to put a) first to be compatible with LSB but on most systems it would change the value returned by platform.dist after the patch (is it a problem ?). I would have liked to use c) as second choice but this space in the name set by Mandriva could be a problem (It's possible to suppress spaces in the result though). 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 ? __________________________________ 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
