[issue7863] platform module doesn't detect Windows 7

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Brian Curtin wrote:
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> Brian Curtin <curtin at acm.org> added the comment:
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> Here's a patch which fixes this on trunk. 
> 
> 2.6/3.1 is a different story as there doesn't appear to be a way to get the platform type to differentiate workstation/server. #7766 is what makes it easy on trunk, but it's a new feature and isn't backported. Thoughts?

We can't backport #7766, so unless there's some win32 or OS env var trick
that we could apply, I'm not sure whether Windows 7 support can be
added to 2.6/3.1.

I don't have access to a Windows 7 installation, so can't really
test this on that version. Have you tested the patch on other
Windows versions ?

Esp. the csd change looks like it could break on older versions.

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