Message 73660 - Python tracker

Message73660

Author	zooko
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, bgomes, christian.heimes, draghuram, georg.brandl, lemburg, pavel.vinogradov, sapetnioc, zooko
Date	2008-09-23.19:49:03
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Message-id	<1222199344.59.0.624095734142.issue1322@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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MAL: why do you say it is better to look for /etc/$supportedplatform-release files first instead of looking for /etc/lsb-release first? I do not know if /etc/lsb-release is suitably generic -- I've tried it only on a few platforms. I do know that executing lsb_release is suitably generic since it is standard, but I prefer not to try it first since it imposes about half-a-second delay.

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MAL:  why do you say it is better to look for
/etc/$supportedplatform-release files first instead of looking for
/etc/lsb-release first?

I do not know if /etc/lsb-release is suitably generic -- I've tried it
only on a few platforms.  I do know that executing lsb_release is
suitably generic since it is standard, but I prefer not to try it first
since it imposes about half-a-second delay.

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2008-09-23 19:49:04	zooko	set	recipients: + zooko, lemburg, georg.brandl, draghuram, christian.heimes, sapetnioc, benjamin.peterson, pavel.vinogradov, bgomes
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