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6 <email>aidecoe@gentoo.org</email>
7 <name>Amadeusz Żołnowski</name>
9 <longdescription lang="en">
10 This is a small Python module that determines and returns standardized
11 names for platforms, where the "standard" is Trent Mick's reasoning :)
12 from experience building ActivePython on a fairly large number of
15 The driving goal is to provide platform names that are:
17 - readable (as much as possible making matching the given name to an
18 actually machine self-explanatory)
19 - be capable enough to produce all names needed to distinguish all
20 platform-specific application builds
21 - generally safe for usage in filenames
22 - not ugly (e.g. "MSWin32" is ugly)