[issue38021] Modify AIX platform_tag so it provides PEP425 needs

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Thanks for your patience Michael! I made some cosmetic changes to the error handling logic that you may want to include in the PyPA patches. (I'd intended to make it so that a malformed build date resulted in the "Unknown" "9898" build date being used, rather

[issue38021] Modify AIX platform_tag so it provides PEP425 needs

Nick Coghlan added the comment: New changeset 39afa2d3147e4b05a1161cc90dbf09b95072c2bb by Nick Coghlan (Michael Felt) in branch 'master': bpo-38021: Modify AIX platform_tag so it covers PEP 425 needs (GH-17303) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/39afa2d3147e4b05a1161cc90dbf09b95072c2bb

[issue38021] Modify AIX platform_tag so it provides PEP425 needs

Michael Felt added the comment: Well, I certainly had not considered people would be using distutils.get_platform().startswith('aix') as I have, in my limited reading, only seen sys.platform.startswith("aix"). Likewise, do not want to break things. I thought this was easier to grasp than my

[issue38021] Modify AIX platform_tag so it provides PEP425 needs

Nick Coghlan added the comment: There's a compatibility problem with changing the AIX distutils platform prefix from aix to AIX: any existing code that does "distutils.get_platform().startswith('aix')" will break. (There isn't any code in the standard library that does that, it all checks

[issue38021] Modify AIX platform_tag so it provides PEP425 needs

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Removing 3.9 from the target versions, as similar to other platform tag improvements, emulation on older release versions will be the domain of cross-version libraries, rather than changing the standard library in a maintenance. -- versions: -Python

[issue38021] Modify AIX platform_tag so it provides PEP425 needs

Michael Felt added the comment: Updated this PR, and PRs in pypa/pip and pypa/packaging to all be "in sync". -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38021] Modify AIX platform_tag so it provides PEP425 needs

Change by Michael Felt : -- title: pep425 tag for AIX is inadequate -> Modify AIX platform_tag so it provides PEP425 needs ___ Python tracker ___