[Distutils] GCC versions and binary egg names

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 27, 2010, at 01:43 PM, David Cournapeau wrote:

>> 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?
>
>AFAIK, this PEP helps for ABI issues *within* one platform at one
>given version. But this does not cope with the issue of
>inter-distributions ABI (which I think is hopelessly intractable
>unless you bundle almost everything, which is what everybody is doing
>outside the system packaging system)

Agreed.
-Barry

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