[Distutils] bulk upload

[Robin Becker]

On 25/07/2016 15:30, Daniel Holth wrote:
> 1. There is a tool called twine that is the best way to upload to pypi
>
thanks I'll check that out.

> 2. I'm not aware of any aggregate limits but I'm pretty sure each
> individual file can only be so big
In our private readonly pypi we have 93 releases. I don't think that burden 
should fall on pypi. However, it's not clear to me if I should push micro 
releases to pypi and then remove them when another release is made. Is there a 
way to remove a 'release' completely? The edit pages seem to suggest so, but 
does that remove the files?

>
> 3. Maybe the platform returns as manylinux1? Set an environment variable to
> ask for static linking, and check for it in your build script?
>
.......
I did try manylinux1 (after PEP 513), but it didn't seem to work; looked at sys 
platform, os name and the platform module, but see only this

 > platform=Linux-3.16.0-50-generic-x86_64-with-redhat-5.11-Final
 > sys.platform=linux2
 > os.name=posix

however, it's easy enough to export an environment variable in the docker 
startup script.

I did try to reduce my manylinux sizes by using a library of shared object codes 
(ie a .a built from the PIC compile objs), but I didn't seem able to make this 
work properly; the resulting .so seems to contain the whole library (freetype). 
The windows linker seems able to pick up only the required bits so the windows 
wheels are much smaller.
-- 
Robin Becker