[Distutils] Re: distutils.util.get_host_platform() and AIX

2019-08-13 Thread Michael
On 13/08/2019 17:13, Paul Moore wrote: > A couple of quick points: Many thanks for the pointers! > > * You want to focus on setuptools rather than distutils. Setuptools > extends distutils with recent packaging developments, distutils is > essentially just core Python legacy support these days. > *

[Distutils] Re: distutils.util.get_host_platform() and AIX

2019-08-13 Thread Paul Moore
A couple of quick points: * You want to focus on setuptools rather than distutils. Setuptools extends distutils with recent packaging developments, distutils is essentially just core Python legacy support these days. * Wheels (built binaries) are typically tagged as manylinux using the auditwheel

[Distutils] Re: distutils.util.get_host_platform() and AIX

2019-08-13 Thread Michael
On 06/08/2019 09:15, Michael wrote: OK - been about a week - so, before I forget everything a list-ping... Quick summary: re: manylinix1 approach: read several docs and checked CPython - please tell me if/where I am missing something. * I do not have a Linux system to look at separately, maybe I