[Distutils] PEP 513: A Platform Tag for Portable Linux Built Distributions Version

[Robert T. McGibbon]

Virtualenvs have `sys.base_prefix`, so perhaps they could just check
whether the key exists for their parent environment?

-Robert

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2016 1:04 PM, "Robert T. McGibbon" <rmcgibbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The file pip uses to record its latest check for being out of date (on
> linux ~/.cache/pip/selfcheck.json) is a json file that maps the path to the
> interpreter's sys.prefix to some metadata about the installation
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > {"/home/rmcgibbo/opt/python-3.5/":
> {"last_check":"2016-01-12T00:09:02Z","pypi_version":"7.1.2"}, ...}
> >
> > Perhaps a similar model should be used for
> /etc/python/compatibility.cfg. That is, the configuration option should be
> keyed on a per-interpreter basis.
> >
> > [/usr]
> > manylinux1 compatible = true
> >
> > [/path/to/armv7l/python]
> > manylinux1 compatible = false
>
> Interesting idea. Any thoughts on how to propagate this information from
> parent envs into virtualenvs?
>
> -n
>



-- 
-Robert
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