On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 January 2016 at 05:30, Nate Coraor <n...@bx.psu.edu> wrote: > > I wonder if, in relation to this, it may be best to have two separate > tags: > > one to indicate that the wheel includes external libraries rolled in to > it, > > and one to indicate that it doesn't. That way, a user can make a > conscious > > decision as to whether they want to install any wheels that could include > > libraries that won't be maintained by the distribution package manager. > That > > way if we end up in a future world where manylinux wheels and > > distro-specific wheels (that may depend on non-default distro packages) > live > > in PyPI together, there'd be a way to indicate a preference. > > I don't think we want to go into that level of detail in the platform > tag, but metadata for bundled pre-built binaries in wheels and > vendored dependencies in sdists is worth considering as an enhancement > in its own right. > I thought the same thing - the only reason I proposed tags that it was my understanding that such metadata is not available to installation tool(s) until the distribution is fetched and inspected. If my limited understanding is incorrect then I agree that having this in the tags is too much. --nate > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia >
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