[Distutils] Plans for binary wheels, and PyPi and OS-X

[Donald Stufft]

On Oct 21, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> -- it would be very useful if folks could easily
>>> get binary wheels for OS-X
>> 
>> We do plan to support it, but the pip devs uncovered a hole in the current
>> wheel spec that means it generates the same filename on *nix systems for
>> wheels that need to have different names for the download side of things to
>> work properly
> 
> THanks -- but really? don't OS-X wheels get:
> 
> macosx_10_6_intel
> 
> or some such tacked on? Where does that go wrong?

Homebrew, Mac Ports, Fink. That would work OK if nobody ever installed things
that the system didn't provide.

> 
>> Once ensurepip has landed in Python 3.4 and pip 1.5 is released, we should
>> be able to get back to updating the various metadata specs, with the aim of
>> getting cross-platform wheel support in pip 1.6 :)
> 
> Getting there... thanks,
> 
> -Chris
> 
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