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Re: [Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

From: Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net>
Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:31:01 +1200
On 14 August 2015 at 13:25, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Nate Coraor <n...@bx.psu.edu> wrote:>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:>>>>>> From my reading of what the Enthought and Continuum folks were saying>>> about how they are successfully distributing binaries across different>>> distributions, it sounds like the additional piece that would take this from>>> a interesting experiment to basically-immediately-usable would be to teach>>> pip that if no binary-compatibility.cfg is provided, then it should assume>>> by default that the compatible systems whose wheels should be installed are:>>> (1) the current system's exact tag,>>>> This should already be the case - the default tag will no longer be>> -linux_x86_64, it'd be linux_x86_64_distro_version.>>>>>>>> (2) the special hard-coded tag "centos5". (That's what everyone actually>>> uses in practice, right?)>>>> The idea here is that we should attempt to install centos5 wheels if more>> specific wheels for the platform aren't available?>> Yes.>> Or more generally, we should pick some common baseline build> environment such that we're pretty sure wheels built there can run on> 99% of end-user systems and give this environment a name. (Doesn't> have to be "centos5", though IIUC CentOS 5 is what people are using> for this baseline build environment right now.) That way when distros> catch up and start providing binary-compatibility.cfg files, we can> give tell them that this is an environment that they should try to> support because it's what everyone is using, and to kick start that> process we should assume it as a default until the distros do catch> up. This has two benefits: it means that these wheels would actually> become useful in some reasonable amount of time, and as a bonus, it> would provide a clear incentive for those rare distros that *aren't*> compatible to document that by starting to provide a> binary-compatibility.cfg.

Sounds like a reinvention of LSB, which is still a thing I think, but
really didn't take the vendor world by storm.

-Rob

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