[Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

[Alexander Walters]

On 8/14/2015 16:16, Chris Barker wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org 
> <mailto:steve.dower at python.org>> wrote:
>
>     There was discussion about an "incompatible_with" metadata item at
>     one point. Could numpy include {incompatible_with: "scipy<x.y"} in
>     such a release? Or would that not be possible.
>
>
> circular dependency hell! scipy depends on numpy, not teh other way 
> around -- so it needs to be clear which version of numpy a given 
> version of scipy depends on.
>
> -CHB
>
I think a better spelling of that would be something along the lines of 
'abi_version' - listing all the packages your new version of your module 
breaks... is a long list.

- Alex W.
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