On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > I like the simple approach Nathaniel now has in the PEP, as that seems > like it should be relatively easy to handle as either modifications > directly to a python package, or as an add-on module (ala installing > LSB support, only much lighter weight). It doesn't scale to lots of > platform tags, but we don't really intend it to - we'd like to avoid > platform tag proliferation if we can, and if we're successful in that, > then we won't need to solve the problem with a lack of scalability. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > P.S. To provide a bit more context on "Why is a separate file > easier?", the main benefit is that adding a new file simply *cannot* > break the sys or platform modules, while patching them can. That's > still not a guarantee that any given distro will actually provide an > importable "_manylinux" module to indicate compatibility, but given > the fallback glibc check, _manylinux is more a hedge against future > *in*compatibility than it is anything else.
Great! I think we're ready for pronouncement then... I'll resend the (hopefully final) version in a moment. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
