On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:17 AM, David Cournapeau
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Tarek Ziadé
wrote: Besides a well-defined ABI, if usc2/usc4 + 32/64 bits distinction on some platforms already fixes a numbers of use cases, I think could worth it for 2.7/3.2
What bothers me is that get_platform is the wrong function for this - it is also likely that changing its behavior may break existing extensions and build scripts (as get_platform is used to generate some "distributions" names).
If a function to qualify an ABI on a specific platform is needed, it should be a new function IMHO.
I had a backward compatible mode in mind, maybe with a boolean option like "detailed". Because at the end, If i understand the need correctly, it will be used where get_platform() is used today
David
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