[Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

[Daniel Holth]

IIRC there's also a bug where we use pypy's version "2.6.2" and not the
version of Python it implements "2.7" for the first tag.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 9:53 AM Nate Coraor <nate at bx.psu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>
>> On September 3, 2015 at 8:15:53 AM, Daniel Holth (dholth at gmail.com)
>> wrote:
>> > We could at least merge the implementation of the SOABI tag for Python
>> 2.7
>> > (cp27m, cp27mu, ...), which has been in the PEP from the beginning but
>> was
>> > never implemented for Python 2. This lets you distinguish between wheels
>> > built for CPython with debug, pymalloc, unicode builds.
>> >
>> > For pypy which does not have SOABI, the current 'none' should suffice.
>>
>
> The ABI tag code as written will actually set it for PyPy (e.g. 'pp222mu')
> since the SOABI config var is unset on it (and probably any other
> non-Python-3 implementation). This was intentional since PyPy does actually
> build some C Extensions, but I can limit SOABI detection to CPython if it
> doesn't make sense to do it on PyPy.
>
> However, I see now it will also be set for Jython, which it definitely
> should not do, so I'll fix that regardless.
>
>
>> >
>>
>> Merging the SOABI tag sounds like a win to me.
>>
>
> I'll create PRs for this against wheel and pip shortly. I can also work on
> a PEP for the platform tag - I don't think it's going to need to be a big
> one. Are there any preferences as to whether this should be a new PEP or an
> update to 425?
>
>
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