Re: [Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Antoine Pitrou <soli...@pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:26:44 -0400> Nate Coraor <n...@bx.psu.edu> wrote:> >> > So I need a bit of guidance here. I've arbitrarily chosen some tags -> > `rhel` for example - and wonder if, like PEP 425's mapping of Python> > implementations to tags, a defined mapping of Linux distributions to> > shorthand tags is necessary (of course this would be difficult to keep up> > to date, but binary-compatibility.cfg would make it less relevant in the> > long run).> >> > Alternatively, I could simply trust and normalize> > platform.linux_distribution()[0],>> In practice, the `platform` module does not really keep up to date with> evolution in the universe of Linux distributions.>

Understandable, although so far it's doing a pretty good job:

    ('Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server', '6.5', 'Santiago')
    ('CentOS', '6.7', 'Final')
    ('CentOS Linux', '7.1.1503', 'Core')
    ('Scientific Linux', '6.2', 'Carbon')
    ('debian', '6.0.10', '')
    ('debian', '7.8', '')
    ('debian', '8.1', '')
    ('debian', 'stretch/sid', '')
    ('Ubuntu', '12.04', 'precise')
    ('Ubuntu', '14.04', 'trusty')
    ('Fedora', '21', 'Twenty One')
    ('SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ', '11', 'x86_64')
    ('Gentoo Base System', '2.2', '')

platform.linux_distribution(full_distribution_name=False) might be nice but
it made some bad assumptions, e.g. on Scientific Linux it returned the
platform as 'redhat'.

--nate


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