[Distutils] Platform tags for OS X binary wheels

[Robert McGibbon]

Sounds good. I'll take a look.

-Robert

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you would like to fix the problem, figure out how to get the real OSX
> version into pip.pep425tags.
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:20 PM Robert McGibbon <rmcgibbo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For OS X, the pip get_platform function eventually calls into here:
>> https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/_osx_support.py#L429-L439,
>> and I think the comment kind of explains the bug.
>>
>> -Robert
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I see what you mean. Sounds like a bug to me.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:07 PM Robert McGibbon <rmcgibbo at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't think it's the sorting, per se. All of the get_supported()
>>>> tags are 10.5 or earlier. Here's the output:
>>>> https://gist.github.com/rmcgibbo/1d0f5d166ca48253b5a9
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It should already be sorted. Try python -c "import pprint,
>>>>> pip.pep425tags; pprint.pprint(pip.pep425tags.get_supported())"
>>>>>
>>>>> Do none of the tags for the available numpy wheels appear in that list?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:48 PM Robert McGibbon <rmcgibbo at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just tried to run `pip install numpy` on my OS X 10.10.3 box, and
>>>>>> it proceeds to download and compile the tarball from PyPI from source (very
>>>>>> slow). I see, however, that pre-compiled OS X wheel files are available on
>>>>>> PyPI for OS X 10.6 and later.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Checking the code, it looks like pip is picking up the platform tag
>>>>>> through `distutils.util.get_platform()`, which returns 'macosx-10.5-x86_64'
>>>>>> on this machine. At root, I think this comes from
>>>>>> the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 entry in the Makefile at
>>>>>> `python3.5/config-3.5m/Makefile`. I know that this value is used by
>>>>>> distutils compiling python extension modules -- presumably so that they can
>>>>>> be distributed to any target machine with OS X >=10.5 -- so that's good.
>>>>>> But is this the right thing for pip to be using when checking whether a
>>>>>> binary wheel is compatible? I see it mentioned
>>>>>> <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0425/#id13> in PEP 425, so
>>>>>> perhaps this was already hashed out on the list.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Robert
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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