On 21 Oct, 2013, at 20:52, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> -- it would be very useful if folks could easily >>>> get binary wheels for OS-X >>> >>> We do plan to support it, but the pip devs uncovered a hole in the current >>> wheel spec that means it generates the same filename on *nix systems for >>> wheels that need to have different names for the download side of things to >>> work properly >> >> THanks -- but really? don't OS-X wheels get: >> >> macosx_10_6_intel >> >> or some such tacked on? Where does that go wrong? > > Homebrew, Mac Ports, Fink. That would work OK if nobody ever installed things > that the system didn't provide.
I don't understand this, what would break? Binary wheels that reference shared libraries that aren't included in the wheel (or a default system install) won't work, but that's also true on Windows. What makes OSX more fun[1] than Linux is including shared libraries in the binary archive, unless you are careful with linking you'll end up with binaries that can only be installed in 1 filesystem location (that is, don't work in virtualenvs). Ronald [1] for a fairly twisted definition of fun ;-) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
