> On Jul 17, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've recently packaged SDL2 for Windows as a wheel, without any Python code. > It is a conditional dependency "if Windows" for a SDL wrapper.
Cool, though I still think we need wheel-level deps -- the dependency is on the particular binary, not the platform. But a good start. > > We were talking on this list about adding more categories to wheel, to make > it easier to install in abstract locations "confdir", "libdir" etc. probably > per GNU convention which would map to /etc, /usr/share, and so forth based on > the platform. Where would the concrete firs be? I think inside the Python install I.e. Where everything is managed by python . I don't think I want pip dumping stuff in /use/local, nevermind /usr. And presumably the goal is to support virtualenv anyway. > Someone needs to write that specification. Propose we forget about Windows > for the first revision, so that it is possible to get it done. If we want Windows support in the long run -- and we do -- we should be thinking about it from the start. But if it's going in the Python-managed dirs, it doesn't have to follow Windows convention ... > The real trick is when you have to depend on something that lives outside of > your packaging system, for example, it's probably easier to ship qt as a > wheel than to ship libc as a wheel. Well, we can expect SOME base system! No system can exist without libc.... -CHB _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
