[Distutils] What does it mean for Python to "bundle pip"?

[Donald Stufft]

On Aug 21, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 August 2013 11:39, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21 August 2013 11:29, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I may have misunderstood it but looking at this
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/tools/win32build/nsis_scripts/numpy-superinstaller.nsi.in#L147
>>> I think that the installer ships variants for each architecture and
>>> decides at install time which to place on the target system. If that's
>>> the case then would it be possible for a wheel to ship all variants so
>>> that a post-install script could sort it out (rename/delete) after the
>>> wheel is installed?
>> 
>> Wheel 1.0 does not have the ability to bundle multiple versions (and I don't
>> think tags are fine-grained enough to cover the differences numpy need,
>> which are at the "do you have the SSE instruction set?" level AIUI).
>> Multi-version wheels are a possible future extension, but I don't know if
>> anyone has thought about fine-grained tags.
> 
> No, but the wheel could do like the current numpy installer and ship
>    _numpy.pyd.nosse
>    _numpy.pyd.sse1
>    _numpy.pyd.sse2
>    _numpy.pyd.sse3
> as platlib files and then a post-install script can check for SSE
> support, rename the appropriate file to _numpy.pyd and delete the
> other _numpy.pyd.* files.
> 
>> This is precisely the sort of input that the numpy people could provide to
>> make sure that the wheel design covers their needs.
> 
> I'm I right in guessing (since the question keeps being evaded :) )
> that a post-install script is not possible with pip+wheel+PyPI?.
> 
> 
> Oscar
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Metadata 2.0 includes the ability to have a post install script, but Wheel is not yet using Metadata 2.0 (and it's not yet finalized).

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