[Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

[Tres Seaver]

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On 07/17/2015 11:46 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> Due to the fact Linux binary wheels don't exist, conda is even more 
> useful on Linux...

FWIW, they exist, they just can't be published to PyPI.  Private indexes
(where binary compatibility is a known quantity) work fine with them.

Because it nails down binary non-Python dependencies, conda (and similar
tools) do fit the bill for public distribution of Python projects which
have such build-time deps.

Even given the "over-specified" platform tags Nick suggests, linux wheels
won't fully work, because the build-time depes won't be satisfiable *by
pip*:  the burden will be on each project to attempt a build and then
spit out an error message trying to indicate the missing system package.

Is-that-'-dev'-or-'-devel'-I-need?'ly,


Tres.
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