[Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

[Nate Coraor]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

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> On August 20, 2015 at 3:23:09 PM, Daniel Holth (dholth at gmail.com) wrote:
> > If you need that for some reason just put the longer information in the
> > metadata, inside the WHEEL file for example. Surely "does it work on my
> > system" dominates, as opposed to "I have a wheel with this mnemonic tag,
> > now let me install debian 5 so I can get it to run".
> >
> >
>
> It’s less about “now let me install Debian 5” and more like tooling that
> doesn’t run *on* the platform but which needs to make decisions based on
> what platform a wheel is built for.
>

This makes binary-compatibility.cfg much more difficult, however. There'd
still have to be a maintained list of "platform" to hash.

--nate


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