From: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:51:35 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: bpo-35516: platform.system_alias() don't replace Darwin (GH-11207)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~251
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60875db2f67815d7d181c552bfac59e8c97619e3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-35516: platform.system_alias() don't replace Darwin (GH-11207)

Add a comment explaining why system_alias() doesn't alias Darwin to
macOS.
---

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index 9dd3f47075bf..2ab68aed7861 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -514,6 +514,9 @@ def system_alias(system, release, version):
         # In case one of the other tricks
         system = 'Windows'
 
+    # bpo-35516: Don't replace Darwin with macOS since input release and
+    # version arguments can be different than the currently running version.
+
     return system, release, version
 
 ### Various internal helpers