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On 29 Oct 2014 01:02, "David Cournapeau" <<a href="mailto:cournape@gmail.com">cournape@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Practically speaking, there is no such a thing as ABI on Linux: even if you somehow managed to deal with glibc, you would then need to deal with fortran ABI, then with C++ ABI, etc... Dealing with this at the python level is simply intractable. That needs to be handled at the distribution level, or within a "sumo distribution" like Anaconda from Continuum or Canopy from Enthought (disclaimer, I work for Enthought), which makes the problem more tractable by picking up an ABI and stick with it for the full set of packages.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This is the kind of direction we're also exploring for Fedora & EPEL: setting up a distro specific devpi instance so we can automatically publish distro compatible wheel files, as well as separating the distro level licencing and preliminary security review step from the step of repackaging in a language independent format. (I need to set up a curated PyPI mirror for work anyway, and since I work at Red Hat, and the Fedora community are open to the idea, we're working on it upstream rather than inside the firewall)</p>
<p dir="ltr">This initial experiment with Python is a pilot - if we can get it to work in a way that seems sustainable, we'll look to offer it as a supported service in the Fedora 22 time frame, as well as opening things up for folks to pitch other language specific stacks.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>
Nick.</p>