Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:15:46 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers | From | Colin Walters <> |
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Details. Examples. Name the f&*cking names already. Shame them publicly.
A notable one is that Python now reports "linux3" from sys.platform(); which in turn can break things that were checking sys.platform() == "linux2".
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564
Seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using '==' instead of .startswith().
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