[Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

[Tarek Ziadé]

2009/9/15 Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com>:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:00:41 -0700, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> [only_windows]
>> condition: sys_platform == 'win32'
>> requires: pywin32
>
> I am ambivalent about using sys.platform. How do I specify Linux?
>
>   >>> sys.platform
>   'linux2'
>
> "linux2"? What are the possible values for `sys.platform`? Is it even a
> well-defined list?

Yes of course,

http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html

os.uname() also give you more details on the platform/


> What if Linux 3.x comes out .. and the package would stop
> using the conditional dependent package (that is dependent on 'linux2')?

The same thing that what would happen when Python 4 is out I guess,
all distributions will have to change their dependencies list (thus
the setup.cfg file)
accordingly in their next release.

>
> cf. http://code.google.com/p/platinfo/issues/detail?id=1
>



> -srid
>
>



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