[Distutils] pkg_resources and Mac OS X universal builds

[Bob Ippolito]

Modern Mac OS X applications need to support both the i386 and ppc  
architectures in what's called a universal build (AKA fat in NeXT- 
ese).  Ronald Oussoren and I are very far along in making python24- 
maint capable of doing this with patches all over the build procedure  
and a few smaller patches to distutils itself.  One such patch  
basically expands upon the macosx platform string from pkg_resources,  
with the additional clause that a fat build of Python (one configured  
to build multi-architecture extensions) will report its architecture  
as "fat" rather than "i386" or "ppc".

In order for setuptools' pkg_resources to inherit this behavior, I  
need the attached patch to be accepted.  Basically it just skips over  
the custom behavior if get_platform already returns a sanitized value.

-bob

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