[Distutils] [RFC] PEP 345 and PEP 386 updates

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:48:41 +0530, David Lyon <david.lyon at preisshare.net>  
wrote:

> My original point was only that 'win32' constant from the stdlib sys  
> module
> is an
> inaccurate constant to describe windows now. The stdlib platform module
> uses
> 'Windows' and that seems better.

+1

I suggest to first have a standard library module/api that would give such  
'friendly' names. This is what `platinfo` is heading towards:  
http://code.google.com/p/platinfo/wiki/FutureWork .. to quote:

     I'm considering using "mac" instead of "macosx" for PlatInfo.os on
     Mac. Certainly not decided though. I guess my main motivation is
     that a sufficiently unambiguous platform name for a universal Mac
     package is "mac" ("macosx" seems a bit pointless).

     Will use "windows" for PlatInfo.os instead of "win32" or
     "win64". The old names were imperfect and misleading references to
     either what used to be called the "win32 API" (but is now the
     Windows API).

-srid