On Jan 29, 2016, at 8:44 PM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
On Jan 29, 2016, at 2:35 PM, Nate Coraor <nate@bx.psu.edu <mailto:nate@bx.psu.edu>> wrote:
Is there a distro-specific wheel tagging PEP in development somewhere that I missed? If not, I will get the ball rolling on it.
I think this a great idea, and I think it actually pairs nicely with the manylinux proposal. It should be pretty easy to cover the vast bulk of users with a handful of platform specific wheels (1-3ish) and then a manylinux wheel to cover the rest. It would let a project use newer toolchains/libraries in the common case, but still fall back to the older ones on more unusual platforms.
Yes! This would be fantastic. There are some libraries you actually want to dynamically link against from the platform, especially if you're writing desktop apps. On OS X you can do this because /System/*/ is more or less fixed when you are >= some version; on linux less so but it would be very nice to build artifacts for specific versions when possible. -glyph