[Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

[Nate Coraor]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Nate Coraor <nate at bx.psu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> It's the other way around:
>
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2882
>
> My changes set the Python tag to the version of PyPy.
>
>
>> 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?
>>>
>>
Here are the PRs for SOABI support and PyPy version tag correction:

https://bitbucket.org/pypa/wheel/pull-requests/55/soabi-support-for-python-2x-and-pypy/diff
https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/3075

--nate


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>>>> Donald Stufft
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