On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 22:34:38 +0100 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6 July 2015 at 19:18, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > What if packagers take care of working around the issue? > > (for example by building on a suitably old Linux platform, as we > > already do for Conda packages) > > At the moment it's just a simple "if the wheel is for Linux, reject it" test. > > As to whether that's too conservative, one of the Linux guys would > need to comment. Maybe the issue is simply that we can't be sure > people will take the care that you do, and the risk of people getting > broken installs is too high?
Then how about a warning, or a rejection by default with a well-known way to bypass it? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
