[Distutils] Finishing PEP 241

[John J. Lee]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Andrew Kuchling wrote:
[...]
> So, what to do?  Some options are:
>
> * Specify a short and incomplete list of platform specs:
>   MacOS/Windows/POSIX/BeOS/...  State in the PEP that this list is
>   incomplete.  Binary distributions will use a different metadata
>   header (Compiled-Platform, Supported-Platform, or something like
>   that) to specify the OS and CPU they were compiled for.
[...]

Sounds okay.  Is there any reason not to use the os.name values for this?
ie. 'nt', 'dos', 'posix', 'mac', 'os2', 'java', 'ce' etc ('beos' doesn't
seem to be in the list for 2.0 -- was it a recent port, or what?)


John