Re: [Discuss][Python] Stop publishing universal wheels?

2022-10-27 Thread Joris Van den Bossche
The cibuildwheel documentation has a note about this (https://cibuildwheel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq/#universal2), quoting: > The dual-architecture universal2 has a few benefits, but a key benefit to > a universal wheel is that a user can bundle these wheels into an application > and ship a sin

Re: [Discuss][Python] Stop publishing universal wheels?

2022-10-27 Thread Uwe L. Korn
Hello, if we have wheels for x86_64 and arm64 individually, I don't see an argument for keeping universal2 ones. x86_64 Macs will probably stay around for a while as Apple is quite good in keeping old hardware updated, and the laptops themselves are pretty solid. Best Uwe On Thu, Oct 27, 2022

[Discuss][Python] Stop publishing universal wheels?

2022-10-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, Currently, for macOS we're publishing both arm64, x86_64 *and* universal2 binary wheels (the latter contain both arm64 and x86_64 code in a single binary). Here are some observations from me: * Producing universal2 wheels is more complex than producing single-architecture wheels (w