On 1 February 2015 at 11:01, Donald Stufft wrote:
> Do you expect some automated tool to take advantage of this link?
>
> In other words, what’s the benefit over just having a link to the docker
> container in the long_description or in the metadata 2.0 project urls?
I agree that from an implemen
> On Jan 31, 2015, at 7:43 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> One of the recurring problems folks mention here is how to deal with
> the complexities of handling Linux ABI compatibility issues.
>
> That's a genuinely hard problem, and not one that *anyone* has solved
> well - it's one of the reasons b
One of the recurring problems folks mention here is how to deal with
the complexities of handling Linux ABI compatibility issues.
That's a genuinely hard problem, and not one that *anyone* has solved
well - it's one of the reasons being an independent software vendor
for Linux in general (rather t
On 01/31/2015 04:11 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 1 February 2015 at 06:19, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>
>> Ah, so it's needed with the sdist command and not the install command?
>> Yeah, you definitely have my sympathies with
>> that one. Too bad there's no easy way to specify behavior based on the
>
On 1 February 2015 at 06:19, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 01/29/2015 08:58 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Ethan Furman writes:
>>
>>> However, I feel that requiring a dependency simply for the
>>> installation of the main package (the main package doesn't actually
>>> use this install-dependency, correct?)
On 30 January 2015 at 04:27, Daniel Holth wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> If we're on CPython 2.x and sysconfig.get_config_var('SOABI') returns
>> None, then we can calculate a synthetic SOABI tag as:
>>
>> * the start of the SOABI tag should be "cpython-"
>> * th
On 01/29/2015 08:58 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ethan Furman writes:
>
>> However, I feel that requiring a dependency simply for the
>> installation of the main package (the main package doesn't actually
>> use this install-dependency, correct?) is heavy-handed and should be
>> avoided.
>
> It is ide
