On 06 September 2000, M.-A. Lemburg said:
Ok, but could you then at least make the archives platform name an option then ? I wrote platform.py for just this reason (it is used in the mxCGIPython project) and would of course like to reuse its functionality for distutils too.
Good idea -- done, at least for bdist_dumb. Now you can run python setup.py bdist --formats=gztar,zip \ --plat-name=linux-2.2-redhat-glibc2.1-i586 or, equivalently (except for the multitude of formats): python setup.py bdist_dumb --plat-name=linux-2.2-redhat-glibc2.1-i586 if you are determined to assault your users with that level of detail. Note that thanks to recent changes to util.get_platform() (not yet checked in, awaiting comment from the SIG), the default platform name is now more useful than Python's vanilla sys.platform, but not as exhaustive (or expensive to compute, I'm guessing) as whatever your platform.py spits out. Greg -- Greg Ward gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/