[New-bugs-announce] [issue4064] distutils.util.get_platform() is wrong for universal builds on macosx

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> When using a universal build of python on macosx 
> distutils.util.get_platform should use "fat" for the machine 
> architecture, instead of the architecture of the current machine.

Can you please explain why it should do so? Where do these architecture
names come from?