[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd
Marc-Andre Lemburg
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Sep 24 17:56:59 CEST 2009
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:
Stef Walter wrote:
>
> Stef Walter <stef at memberwebs.com> added the comment:
>
> I agree with your comments, and the solution you're proposing solves the
> problem (and several others) for the long term.
>
> However in the short term, could this patch be committed? Most other OS's
> (including openbsd and netbsd) have OS specific code in get_platform().
> FreeBSD is notably missing from that function.
The code in get_platform() tries to gather as much information as
possible regarding a platform, rather than limiting the amount of
information.
That's why there are so many entries for the various OSes.
Please contact the maintainer of easy_install to get it fixed
to handle the specific FreeBSD case. For other systems they will
likely have to apply similar patches, e.g. for Mac OS X, Sun,
AIX, etc. - all of these include version and release information
in the get_platform() output.
Regarding a short term fix, there's no a lot we can do: the next
Python release is 2.7 and changing this for 2.6 is out of the question,
since it would break other tools that rely on the established
naming scheme.
easy_install has a different release cycle, so it's easier
to get a fix for it, or just apply one yourself.
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