[Python-Dev] OS information, tags (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Apr 13 16:21:07 CEST 2010

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> While there is some Windows and Mac specific code, treating them as > separate components seems fairly unintuitive.

Not always unintuitive. There are some features only available on a particular platform, then "component" sort of makes sense. OTOH, there are some bugs that are only available on a particular platform even though the code is generic. There "component" isn't very intuitive. In theory, I could see having both the component and the platform fields, but probably that would require too much user education to be worth it.

Yep, that's where the "fairly" qualification came from. It particularly made sense when we had all those Mac OS 9 specific modules kicking around.

This isn't something I feel strongly about - just pointing out to the triage guys that requesting a change is an option if they think it would help.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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