Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > You're implying that the PyPI trove category “Operating System :: POSIX” > > includes MS Windows? Or that it excludes Linux and FreeBSD? Or that it's > > meaningless? > > At least it's not very clear as to what OSes are sufficiently > compliant to be considered supported. Anything that claims POSIX > support might work in Cygwin, or it might not. Who knows?
That the category is not perfectly reliable doesn't argue for ignoring it altogether. I'm saying that the information is available to ‘pip’ for it to help the use determine whether the package will be useful to them. And that the user, in this instance, has a good case to report a bug against ‘pip’ requesting that it should do that. -- \ “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the | `\ occurrence of the improbable.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
