Re: [Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

Yes, but how do you know that I compiled against the right version of libc?

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 9:13 PM Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <
chri...@noaa.gov> wrote:

> > On Jul 17, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote:> >> > I've recently packaged SDL2 for Windows as a wheel, without any Python> code. It is a conditional dependency "if Windows" for a SDL wrapper.>> Cool, though I still think we need wheel-level deps -- the dependency> is on the particular binary, not the platform. But a good start.>> >> > We were talking on this list about adding more categories to wheel, to> make it easier to install in abstract locations "confdir", "libdir" etc.> probably per GNU convention which would map to /etc, /usr/share, and so> forth based on the platform.>> Where would the concrete firs be? I think inside the Python install> I.e. Where everything is managed by python . I don't think I want pip> dumping stuff in /use/local, nevermind /usr. And presumably the goal> is to support virtualenv anyway.>> > Someone needs to write that specification. Propose we forget about> Windows for the first revision, so that it is possible to get it done.>> If we want Windows support in the long run -- and we do -- we should> be thinking about it from the start. But if it's going in the> Python-managed dirs, it doesn't have to follow Windows convention ...>> > The real trick is when you have to depend on something that lives> outside of your packaging system, for example, it's probably easier to ship> qt as a wheel than to ship libc as a wheel.>> Well, we can expect SOME base system! No system can exist without libc....>> -CHB>