They're definitely separate; there's a draft PEP Tennessee and I started at PyCon AU 2014 which would make a good basis for such an effort.
-Rob On 23 June 2016 at 09:42, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2016, at 5:38 PM, Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > > On Jun 22, 2016, at 12:21, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > There are still use cases for distro-specific wheels, though -- some > examples include Raspbian wheels (manylinux1 is x86/x86-64 only), Alpine > Linux wheels (manylinux1 is glibc only), internal deploys that want to build > on Ubuntu 14.04 and deploy on 14.04 and don't need the hassle of generating > manylinux-style binaries but would like a more meaningful platform tag than > "linux", and for everyone who wants to extend wheel metadata to allow > dependencies on external distro packages then having distro-specific wheels > is probably a necessary first step. > > If we want to treat distros as first-class deployment targets I think being > able to use their platform features in a way that's compatible with PyPI is > an important next step. However, wheel tags might be insufficient here; the > main appeal of creating distro-specific wheels is being able to use > distro-specific features, but those typically come along with specific > package dependencies as well, and we don't have a way to express those yet. > > > I don’t think these two things need to be bound together. People can already > today depend on platform specific things just by not publishing wheels. > Adding these tags naturally follows that, where people would need to > manually install items from the OS before they used them. Adding some > mechanism for automating this would be a good, further addition, but I think > they are separately useful (and even more useful and powerful when > combined). > > > I think this is worthwhile to do, but figuring out a way to do it is > probably going to take a lot of discussion. > > -glyph > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > > > — > Donald Stufft > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
