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

[Donald Stufft]

On Oct 31, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:

> Is it "just" a matter of researching if the various build options on OSX really lead to binaries with the same ABI, or is more work needed?   

Basically it’s this:

I was told a wheel built on Ubuntu probably won’t work on Linux, so I shut off Linux Wheels, at the same time I asked about Windows and OSX wheels, the answers I got from people were they would generally just work on Windows, and nobody gave me a straight answer on OSX.

If you build a Wheel with Homebrew Python will it work on the official OSX installers? What if I have a library installed from Homebrew? Essentially trying to figure out how likely it is that with the existing tags a wheel is going to work if we select based on them.

Once we know what, if any, problems exist for the various platforms then we can come up with fixes for them. This just hasn’t been high priority for me because of PEP453 work. 

To be honest the same problems likely exists on Windows, it’s just less likely and the benefits of prebuilt binaries greater.

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