On 14 August 2015 at 13:25, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Nate Coraor <n...@bx.psu.edu> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >>> >>> From my reading of what the Enthought and Continuum folks were saying >>> about how they are successfully distributing binaries across different >>> distributions, it sounds like the additional piece that would take this from >>> a interesting experiment to basically-immediately-usable would be to teach >>> pip that if no binary-compatibility.cfg is provided, then it should assume >>> by default that the compatible systems whose wheels should be installed are: >>> (1) the current system's exact tag, >> >> This should already be the case - the default tag will no longer be >> -linux_x86_64, it'd be linux_x86_64_distro_version. >> >>> >>> (2) the special hard-coded tag "centos5". (That's what everyone actually >>> uses in practice, right?) >> >> The idea here is that we should attempt to install centos5 wheels if more >> specific wheels for the platform aren't available? > > Yes. > > Or more generally, we should pick some common baseline build > environment such that we're pretty sure wheels built there can run on > 99% of end-user systems and give this environment a name. (Doesn't > have to be "centos5", though IIUC CentOS 5 is what people are using > for this baseline build environment right now.) That way when distros > catch up and start providing binary-compatibility.cfg files, we can > give tell them that this is an environment that they should try to > support because it's what everyone is using, and to kick start that > process we should assume it as a default until the distros do catch > up. This has two benefits: it means that these wheels would actually > become useful in some reasonable amount of time, and as a bonus, it > would provide a clear incentive for those rare distros that *aren't* > compatible to document that by starting to provide a > binary-compatibility.cfg.
Sounds like a reinvention of LSB, which is still a thing I think, but really didn't take the vendor world by storm. -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig