[Distutils] GCC versions and binary egg names

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 26, 2010, at 06:04 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

>In addition to the UCS2/4 problems already described by MAL and which
>I've bumped into myself, I now have a problem with binary linux eggs
>where the GCC version doesn't match that of the system the egg is
>being installed on.
>
>Current egg metadata doesn't take either of these into account or even
>provide a way for the nature of the binary egg to be recorded.
>
>How're people coping with this?
>What are the future plans in this area?

I wonder if any distutils experts would care to comment on PEP 3149, and its
applicability to this problem?

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3149/

Is there any way this PEP can help?  Do you have any comments that I should
add to the PEP?

Cheers,
-Barry
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