could you add this platform 'gnukfreebsd9'

[picca]

This is in order to build pytango on the kfreebsd port of debian.

sys.platform
'gnukfreebsd9'

Usually for each new version of the kfreebsd kenel the number is increased, so maybe the best solution is to check only for gnukfreebsd.

thanks

[picca]

another platform is hurd.

import sys
sys.platform
'gnu0'

[vxgmichel]

For the record, here's the list of the tests we perform in setup.py:

posix = 'posix' in os.name
linux = 'linux' in sys.platform
dist_name = platform.linux_distribution()[0].lower()
debian = 'debian' in dist_name or 'ubuntu' in dist_name or 'mint' in dist_name
gentoo ='gentoo' in dist_name
redhat = 'fedora' in dist_name or 'centos' in dist_name

I suggest we replace all linux occurrences with posix and use platform.platform() instead of platform.linux_distribution() since it will be deprecated in python 3.6:

posix = 'posix' in os.name
windows = 'nt' in os.name
platform_name = platform.platform().lower()
debian = any(x in platform_name for x in ['debian', 'ubuntu', 'mint'])
redhat = any(x in platform_name for x in ['redhat', 'fedora', 'centos'])
gentoo = any(x in platform_name for x in ['gentoo'])

What do you think @tiagocoutinho ?

[tiagocoutinho]

Ok with me. Thanks for the cleanup @vxgmichel.

@picca, can you make a PR or would you prefer one of us adds the gnukfreebsd and gnu0 support?

[picca]

Hello, no thanks I prefer to let @vxgmichel do the job. I am more confident that he would do the right thing ;)