Re: [Python-ideas] Add processor generation to wheel metadata

2017-10-30 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-ideas wrote: > Generally, packages are compiled for the same processor generation as the > corresponding Python. > But not always -- e.g. NumPy opted for SSE2 even for Py2 to work around some > compiler bug > (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/

[Python-ideas] Add processor generation to wheel metadata

2017-10-30 Thread Ivan Pozdeev via Python-ideas
Generally, packages are compiled for the same processor generation as the corresponding Python. But not always -- e.g. NumPy opted for SSE2 even for Py2 to work around some compiler bug (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/6428). I was bitten by that at an old machine once and found out that t