On 30 June 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. said:
> Why would you need to figure this out? Are you selecting a
> platform-specific packaging system automatically? In that case, I'd
> search for the presence of the tools rather than asking what sort of
> distribution you're running on -- several distros use RPM, a few use
> .deb packages, etc. When the user specifies one on the command line,
> just use the one they name and be done with it.
Currently it's up to the user to decide which kind of built distribution
they want, with stupid defaults: dumb tarball for Unix, dumb ZIP file
for Windows. If you want an RPM or a Windows installer, you have to say
so explicitly. This is not a big deal, but it might be nice to detect
automatically if we can build (say) RPMs and do so.
This is not a high-priority feature, though. I'll accept a patch if
someone out there is interested enough to implement it.
Greg
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