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Author	neologix
Recipients	Arfrever, amaury.forgeotdarc, lemburg, loewis, neologix, pitrou, rosslagerwall, vstinner
Date	2011-06-14.07:00:49
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> I'm sure Linus Torvalds is fully aware of the possible > consequences of the version change, and just accepted the breakage > that this would cause. Any application relying on sys.platform == 'linux2' is already broken. It's exactly the same if an application checks for 'freebsd6' or 'openbsd4' : if you want to check for a specific operating system, there's already POSIX' struct utsname sysname field, i.e. uname()[0].

> I'm sure Linus Torvalds is fully aware of the possible
> consequences of the version change, and just accepted the breakage
> that this would cause.

Any application relying on sys.platform == 'linux2' is already broken.
It's exactly the same if an application checks for 'freebsd6' or
'openbsd4' : if you want to check for a specific operating system,
there's already POSIX' struct utsname sysname field, i.e. uname()[0].

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-06-14 07:00:50	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, lemburg, loewis, amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou, vstinner, Arfrever, rosslagerwall
2011-06-14 07:00:49	neologix	link	issue12326 messages
2011-06-14 07:00:49	neologix	create