Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> added the comment:
> maybe you have some relevant context Nothing you haven't figured out yourself. As you say, they're both private functions, and as we investigated adding a "get_target_platform" function, it turned out that nearly all users were expecting the target platform, so rather than updating everything we added one for the less-common case. get_host_platform was not defined before, so I'd say use it if it's there and use get_platform if it's not. I doubt we're going to add any new public/supported APIs to distutils ever again, to be honest. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38989> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
