On Mon, 2/12/13, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > The issue is combinatorial explosion in the compatibility tag space. > There is basically zero chance that even Linux users (even RedHat > users across RHEL version) would benefit from pre-built binary > wheels (as opposed to packages from their distribution). Wheels > on POSIX allow caching of the build process for deployment across > a known set of hosts: they won't insulate you from the need to build in > the first place. The combinations are number of Python X.Y versions x the no. of platform architectures/ABI variants, or do you mean something more than this?
The wheel format is supposed to be a cross-platform binary package format; are you saying it is completely useless for POSIX except as a cache for identical hosts? What about for the cases like simple C extensions which have no external dependencies, but are only for speedups? What about POSIX environments where compilers aren't available (e.g. restricted/embedded environments, or due to security policies)? Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
