[Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

[Greg Ewing]

Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:

>    >>> sys.platform
>    'linux2'
> 
> "linux2"? What are the possible values for `sys.platform`?

This is why I usually write Python code that checks sys.platform
like

   if sys.platform.startswith("linux"):
     ...

So the condition language for the metadata needs a "startswith"
operator, I think.

-- 
Greg