Stef Walter <s...@memberwebs.com> added the comment: Other OSs have special cases in get_platform() to specifically limit the amount of code, and make proper decisions with regard to package compatibility.
Here's an example this commit for Mac OS X: http://svn.python.org/view? view=rev&revision=67988 It was discussed here at this issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue4064 Another example is how linux has no version information at all (ie: linux-i586). Perhaps this is why the easy_install authors thought their package system worked. They only tested it on linux? Yes I agree that obviously this cannot be changed for 2.6. But it would be great to get this code in for python 2.7 Anyway, this is ultimately your call, since I don't have the 50,000 foot view over the entire situation. FWIW, I've had to patch python in a very large set of client installations. This patch has become a routine in order to unbreak python wrt to platform dependent packages. ---------- _______________________________________ 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