[Distutils] Proposal: using /etc/os-release in the "platform tag" definition for wheel files

[Noah Kantrowitz]

Manylinux has mostly replaced it as that covers the platforms 99% of people worry about. The tooling for manylinux is more complex than this would have been, but sunk cost etc etc and now that we have it might as well save everyone some headache.

--Noah

> On Jun 22, 2016, at 8:51 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> I believe the status is that there's general consensus that something like this would be useful, but there's no one who is currently actively working in it.
> 
> On Jun 22, 2016 5:53 AM, "Vitaly Kruglikov" <vkruglikov at numenta.com> wrote:
> There have been no updates in over a year. Has this effort died, or transitioned to another medium? Thx
> 
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