Update: not provider packages, but the packages that airflow depends on. indeed all our provider/airflow package are pure python and as long as there are no "special cases" like anyone requiring source packages (for whatever reason) they *should* work.
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:48 AM Jarek Potiuk <jarek.pot...@polidea.com> wrote: > It might well be, yes, that we have no such problem in the airflow > package. I referred more to the provider packages. I think it would like to > hear from the user why sdist was used in this case. > Also, I believe there are some distros Gentoo, that always use sources for > everything it can (and I am not sure if they would work with .whl only). > > I am not against removing it, just want to be sure there are no > unforeseen consequences. Unfortunately, there are no stats to show which > type of packages are downloaded :( > https://pypistats.org/packages/apache-airflow > > J, > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:38 AM Ash Berlin-Taylor <a...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, 12 Dec, 2020 at 10:34, Jarek Potiuk <jarek.pot...@polidea.com> >> wrote: >> >> So I think there will be systems where sdist is used automatically >> because the host system is not as close to what we use when build wheels. >> >> >> I think that is only a problem for wheels with binary components,but our >> wheels are not -- they are universal (i.e. just contain pure python). >> > > > -- > > Jarek Potiuk > Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer > > M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129> > [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/> > > -- Jarek Potiuk Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
