It could get quite messy, without consensus. I figured custom tags would be a more local thing.
On 30 October 2014 11:17, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On Oct 29, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 30 Oct 2014 07:20, "Marcus Smith" <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > yes, I'm partial to a solution like this prior to wheel 2.0 (that I > imagine would support additional/custom tags) > > +1 for being able to add additional custom platform tags in the file > naming convention from me as well. As Marcus noted earlier, even if you set > up distro specific indexes currently, there's nothing built into the > tooling to keep you from trying to install (e.g.) a Fedora 21 wheel on RHEL > or CentOS 5 (which is highly unlikely to work, given that the core ABIs in > RHEL/CentOS 5 are 7 or 8 years old at this point). > > We'd be highly unlikely to flip the switch from "experimental service, use > at your own risk" to "fully supported Fedora feature" while that's still > the case. > > With arbitrary platform tags, we could inject that into the wheel > filenames as part of the build process, and then again when invoking pip. > > That opens things up for us to figure out how to best flag compatibility > on the distro side, without committing to a specific approach upstream (not > yet, anyway). > > An alternative approach would be to add an "additional wheel suffix" > setting for pip that allowed us to have names with endings like ".fc21.whl" > or ".el7.whl" recognised as valid wheel files. > > I'm not that worried about the exact details though - the main feature I'd > like is the ability to create wheel files that pip will ignore by default, > but will accept if I specifically tell it what to look for. > > > Do we plan for this to be allowed to upload to PyPI proper? These custom > tags? > > --- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > >
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