[Distutils] GCC versions and binary egg names

[P.J. Eby]

At 02:17 PM 7/26/2010 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>I wonder if any distutils experts would care to comment on PEP 3149, and its
>applicability to this problem?
>
>http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3149/
>
>Is there any way this PEP can help?

The d/m/u flags look like what's needed, *within* a given 
platform.  The overall platform definition (OS, processor, gcc, etc.) 
is where things are still hairy, though.  (Binary eggs are of course 
already tagged with Python major/minor versions, so it's only the 
OS/processor/etc. that remains an open issue for platform strings.)