On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
I wonder if, in relation to this, it may be best to have two separate tags: one to indicate that the wheel includes external libraries rolled in to it, and one to indicate that it doesn't. That way, a user can make a conscious decision as to whether they want to install any wheels that could include libraries that won't be maintained by the distribution package manager. That way if we end up in a future world where manylinux wheels and distro-specific wheels (that may depend on non-default distro packages)
On 30 January 2016 at 05:30, Nate Coraor <nate@bx.psu.edu> wrote: live
in PyPI together, there'd be a way to indicate a preference.
I don't think we want to go into that level of detail in the platform tag, but metadata for bundled pre-built binaries in wheels and vendored dependencies in sdists is worth considering as an enhancement in its own right.
I thought the same thing - the only reason I proposed tags that it was my understanding that such metadata is not available to installation tool(s) until the distribution is fetched and inspected. If my limited understanding is incorrect then I agree that having this in the tags is too much. --nate
Cheers, Nick.
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