Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Stef Walter wrote: > > Stef Walter <s...@memberwebs.com> added the comment: > > I agree with your comments, and the solution you're proposing solves the > problem (and several others) for the long term. > > However in the short term, could this patch be committed? Most other OS's > (including openbsd and netbsd) have OS specific code in get_platform(). > FreeBSD is notably missing from that function.
The code in get_platform() tries to gather as much information as possible regarding a platform, rather than limiting the amount of information. That's why there are so many entries for the various OSes. Please contact the maintainer of easy_install to get it fixed to handle the specific FreeBSD case. For other systems they will likely have to apply similar patches, e.g. for Mac OS X, Sun, AIX, etc. - all of these include version and release information in the get_platform() output. Regarding a short term fix, there's no a lot we can do: the next Python release is 2.7 and changing this for 2.6 is out of the question, since it would break other tools that rely on the established naming scheme. easy_install has a different release cycle, so it's easier to get a fix for it, or just apply one yourself. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6983> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com