> > After procrastinating 3 years, I finally wrote a script to create
> > bdist's with fairly canonical names on different platforms.  It's
>
> >  http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/bin/botdist
>

Nice!

> Hooray!
>
> Please add the following change/distinction: instead of "...-
> PowerMacintosh-..." (a name the second part of which is superfluous
> anyway, because of the "Darwin" at the end of the canonical naming
> scheme), I propose to use:
>
> ...-PowerPC_G4-...
>
> ...-PowerPC_G5-...
>
> according to the respective hardware the binary is produced on.
> There's no automatic detection to distinguish a G4 from G5 yet, but
> I'll think about it and let you know as soon as possible. In the
> meantime, I'll (re-)name the OS X 10.4 PowerPC_G4 Sage-4.3.2 .dmg I've
> just created accordingly.

Unfortunately, the script above doesn't (or does it?) yet distinguish
between PPC and Intel, so does not solve 
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7623
.  Georg, would that be fairly easy to do, though?  This script could
be then named sage-auto-bdist or something like that and put in /local/
bin.

- kcrisman

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