Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Stef Walter wrote: > 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
Well, if you try to install .egg files built as universal binaries on a system that uses a non-SDK build of Python on a PPC system, you'll have a similar problem. easy_install will look for '...-ppc', but the file is name '...-fat'. But you do have a point: the '10.4' is actually an indicator for the SDK version, not the version of the OS where the package was built. > Another example is how linux has no version information at all (ie: > linux-i586). Right... the Linux major version doesn't change that often, while the minor ones do change very often and don't really give the user any useful information w/r to Python extensions. As a result, using "Linux-2.6.22.19-0.4-default" in the name would cause more user concern than necessary. > Perhaps this is why the easy_install authors thought their > package system worked. They only tested it on linux? Probably. Most .eggs are Python-only, so they don't even need a platform string. The others are mostly for Windows. > 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. Is that binary compatibility scheme documented somewhere ? If so, we could switch to '%s-%s' % (sys.platform, machine) for Python 2.7. > 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. Since this only affects easy_install/setuptools, it's probably easier to just create a patched egg for that and then use it with the normal Python installation. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
