
Can someone enlighten me as to the purpose of the Lib/plat-xxxx directories. What goes in there? Why? I'm trying to figure out if I should be creating one for SCO Open Server BTW. Someone with CVS write access should probably cd Lib ln -s plat-unixware7 plat-openunix8 cvs add plat-openunix8 OpenUNIX 8.0.0 is really UnixWare 7.1.2 underneath. -- Tim Rice Multitalents (707) 887-1469 tim@multitalents.net

Can someone enlighten me as to the purpose of the Lib/plat-xxxx directories. What goes in there? Why?
They're for platform-specific modules. In most cases, the only platform-specific modules are collections of system constants generated by Tools/scripts/h2py.py. For an example, see the regen script in plat-linux2. (It assumes you've set up an alias "h2py" for the script.) I wouldn't bother unless you have an actual use in mind. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Can someone enlighten me as to the purpose of the Lib/plat-xxxx directories. What goes in there? Why?
They're for platform-specific modules. In most cases, the only platform-specific modules are collections of system constants generated by Tools/scripts/h2py.py. For an example, see the regen script in plat-linux2. (It assumes you've set up an alias "h2py" for the script.) I wouldn't bother unless you have an actual use in mind.
OK, Thanks. I'll bundle up my patches and post them to the patch manager.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
-- Tim Rice Multitalents (707) 887-1469 tim@multitalents.net
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