STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:
Marc-Andre Lemburg: > It's not pointless. The rate of change in the field is why this > particular API did not work out in practice. It was working fine > at the time I added it, but then quickly became unmaintainable. Please look at the history of the os-release file. The os-release file format exists for 8 years and has not changed in 8 years. It seems like you are referring to /etc/*release files. I agree that these files are causing a lot of maintenance troubles, and... that's exactly why os-release file has been standardized and created. So I don't get your point. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
