Message 142493 - Python tracker

Message142493

Author	lemburg
Recipients	Arfrever, Ramchandra Apte, amaury.forgeotdarc, barry, benjamin.peterson, djc, dmalcolm, doko, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, foom, gagern, georg.brandl, jwilk, lemburg, loewis, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, python-dev, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, sandro.tosi, vstinner
Date	2011-08-19.20:14:39
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In-reply-to	<1313763975.65.0.0393608400438.issue12326@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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R. David Murray wrote: > > R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment: > > MAL wrote: > >> As already mentioned, the diff between Linux 2.x and 3.x will >> grow over time and while there may not be much to see now, >> things will change in the coming years. > > The only way I can read this argument that makes any sense to me is that you are arguing for a precise build-time OS string. If it is supposed to be an argument in favor of keeping 'linux3' it makes no sense, since '2' vs '3' is in no way a useful line of demarcation when it comes to linux. Indeed. See the sys.build_platform attribute we discussed. > So, if you think there is a run time need to know the precise build time OS version number, can you point to any specific use cases? I already mentioned those use cases. Please see the ticket discussion.

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R. David Murray wrote:
> 
> R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment:
> 
> MAL wrote:
> 
>> As already mentioned, the diff between Linux 2.x and 3.x will
>> grow over time and while there may not be much to see now,
>> things will change in the coming years.
> 
> The only way I can read this argument that makes any sense to me is that you are arguing for a precise build-time OS string.  If it is supposed to be an argument in favor of keeping 'linux3' it makes no sense, since '2' vs '3' is in no way a useful line of demarcation when it comes to linux.

Indeed. See the sys.build_platform attribute we discussed.

> So, if you think there is a *run time* need to know the precise *build time* OS version number, can you point to any specific use cases?

I already mentioned those use cases. Please see the ticket discussion.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-08-19 20:14:40	lemburg	set	recipients: + lemburg, loewis, barry, georg.brandl, doko, amaury.forgeotdarc, gagern, foom, pitrou, vstinner, benjamin.peterson, jwilk, djc, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, Arfrever, r.david.murray, dmalcolm, sandro.tosi, rosslagerwall, python-dev, petri.lehtinen, Ramchandra Apte
2011-08-19 20:14:39	lemburg	link	issue12326 messages
2011-08-19 20:14:39	lemburg	create