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

[Tarek Ziadé]

2009/10/21 Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com>:
[...]
> 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 think we should focus here on what Python's stdlib provides *today*,
for PEP 345 (and 390) discussions.

"platinfo" could be another proposal, and if it makes it to the stlib,
then we can revise in the future 345 and 390 so they provide platinfo
variables to work with.

Tarek