Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> added the comment:
> It would be an interface to a file /etc/os-release > that's common nowadays, just like /etc/lsb-release was some years > ago. These things change too often to make the stdlib a good fit. > I'm pretty sure distros will invent something new in 5 years which > would then render the API mostly useless again. That's pointless speculation -- unless you found a fool-proof way to see into the future. Where do you draw the line? Should the stdlib ignore any standard and API that is less than 10 years old? 20 years? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue28468> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
