> On 25 Jul 2014, at 21:44, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On July 25, 2014 at 3:42:48 PM, Wichert Akkerman (wich...@wiggy.net) wrote: >> >>> On 25 Jul 2014, at 21:06, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >>> >>> On July 25, 2014 at 2:37:58 PM, Richard Jones (r1chardj0...@gmail.com) >>> wrote: >>>> Linux wheels are generally not compatible in a non-local sense, so it's >>>> unlikely those will be distributable through PyPI. That would also mean >>>> it's probably unlikely they'll be built there. >>>> >>>> Something related to this also cane up in discussion at europython but I >>>> don't want to steal any thunder :-) >>>> >>> >>> I completely plan on making it possible to publish Linux Wheels at some >>> point in the future and I don’t believe the binary compat problem on Linux >>> is unable to be overcome. >>> >> >> I have some experience with Linux distributions, and I am struggling to >> image how you can possibly overcome those problems. There are a large number >> of reasons why binary compatibility between various different distributions, >> and different versions of the same distribution is not possible unless you >> integrate very tightly with packaging system, which is something that I >> don’t see being possible with wheels. I would love to hear how you envision >> solving that. >> >> Wichert. >> > > Include the distro name and version in the compatibility tag, so something > like: > > Cython-0.20.1-cp27-none-linux_x86_64-ubuntu_14_04.whl
Will that guarantee the OS-provided Python was used? Or is there still a risk someone was using a custom compiled Python on an Ubuntu 14.04 system that is not binary compatible with the Ubuntu-provided Python? Wichert.
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