[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2015-04-14 Thread A.M. Kuchling
A.M. Kuchling added the comment: Closing this issue; judging by the comments, the fix should be pushed off to setuptools/distribute/whatever. -- nosy: +akuchling resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2012-01-02 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the reply. distutils2 won’t support eggs, and I don’t think setuptools or distribute will be reworked to work on distutils2, so if your problem is only with eggs there is nothing that we can do to solve it in distutils2. (As I said, distutils is fro

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2011-12-23 Thread Stef Walter
Stef Walter added the comment: Good plan. So the issue is: * Platform specific eggs are built containing a path that has the full patch level of the freebsd kernel, like "8.2-RELEASE-p2". The "-p2" part is updated for every security patch of FreeBSD. * Thus when you apply a security pa

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2011-11-20 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: > This is still a bothersome issue, but we've taken to patching every version > of python > downstream before deploying them. All for a simple three line patch. Sorry about the unsatisfactory situation. Could we start anew and define exactly what the problem is

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2011-10-09 Thread Stef Walter
Stef Walter added the comment: Shrug. I guess you can close it. This is still a bothersome issue, but we've taken to patching every version of python downstream before deploying them. All for a simple three line patch. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2011-10-09 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: This patch was a short-term fix. Distutils is closed to anything but bug fixes and distutils2 can get a better fix. Objections if I close this? -- components: +Distutils -Distutils2, Library (Lib) versions: -Python 3.2

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2010-11-26 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Changes by Tarek Ziadé : -- components: +Distutils2, Library (Lib) -Distutils ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

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2010-11-25 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo : -- nosy: +eric.araujo versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing li

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2010-08-03 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- versions: -Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

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2009-09-24 Thread Stef Walter
Stef Walter added the comment: About FreeBSD ABI compatibility between minor versions: Julian Elischer wrote: > It is a policy of the project but I don't think our policies are > written down as such. I think you will find it referenced in > many places in a sideways manner rather than directl

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2009-09-24 Thread Stef Walter
Stef Walter added the comment: Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote: > Is that binary compatibility scheme documented somewhere ? Not sure, it's been referred to and adhered to many times in the FreeBSD community, but I'm not sure where it's documented. I'll ask around on the FreeBSD mailing lists and post

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2009-09-24 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Stef Walter wrote: > Other OSs have special cases in get_platform() to specifically limit the > amount of code, and make proper decisions with regard to package > compatibility. > > Here's an example this commit for Mac OS X: http://svn.python.org/view? >

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2009-09-24 Thread Stef Walter
Stef Walter added the comment: Other OSs have special cases in get_platform() to specifically limit the amount of code, and make proper decisions with regard to package compatibility. Here's an example this commit for Mac OS X: http://svn.python.org/view? view=rev&revision=67988 It was disc

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2009-09-24 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Stef Walter wrote: > > Stef Walter added the comment: > > I agree with your comments, and the solution you're proposing solves the > problem (and several others) for the long term. > > However in the short term, could this patch be committed? Most othe

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2009-09-24 Thread Stef Walter
Stef Walter added the comment: I agree with your comments, and the solution you're proposing solves the problem (and several others) for the long term. However in the short term, could this patch be committed? Most other OS's (including openbsd and netbsd) have OS specific code in get_platfo

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2009-09-24 Thread Marc-Andre Lemburg
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Stef Walter wrote: > > New submission from Stef Walter : > > In Lib/distutils/util.py in the get_platform() function there's OS > specific code to create a string which describes the current platform. > This usually includes the OS + version + arch. >

[issue6983] Add specific get_platform() for freebsd

2009-09-23 Thread Stef Walter
New submission from Stef Walter : In Lib/distutils/util.py in the get_platform() function there's OS specific code to create a string which describes the current platform. This usually includes the OS + version + arch. FreeBSD specific code is missing from this function. Currently get_platfo