bpo-38021: Modify AIX platform_tag so it covers PEP 425 needs (GH-17303)
Provides a richer platform tag for AIX that we expect to be sufficient for PEP 425
binary distribution identification. Any backports to earlier Python versions will be
handled via setuptools.
Patch by Michael Felt.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 17a94bc..4b002ec 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@
machine += ".%s" % bitness[sys.maxsize]
# fall through to standard osname-release-machine representation
elif osname[:3] == "aix":
- return "%s-%s.%s" % (osname, version, release)
+ from _aix_support import aix_platform
+ return aix_platform()
elif osname[:6] == "cygwin":
osname = "cygwin"
rel_re = re.compile (r'[\d.]+', re.ASCII)