[Distutils] GCC versions and binary egg names

[Chris Withers]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
> GCC version shouldn't matter.  It is barely possible that libc versions
> might.

Practical experience on trying to migrate from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 
suggests both matter with the common scipy stack.

> By never, ever, ever distributing binary eggs, especially for Linux. 

That's fine in a world without python packages with C and Fortran 
extensions that are a royal PITA to compile. (fragile much?!)

Chris

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