[Distutils] 3.6.0b2 on windows

Steve Dower steve.dower at python.org
Wed Oct 12 19:32:35 EDT 2016


On 12Oct2016 0418, Robin Becker wrote:
> I have a question regarding an error message I see when building an
> extension for windows using the 3.6.0b2 release
>
>
>> C:\ux\XB33\py36_x86\lib\site-packages\wheel\pep425tags.py:77:
> RuntimeWarning: Config variable 'Py_DEBUG' is unset, Pytho
>> n ABI tag may be incorrect
>>   warn=(impl == 'cp')):
>> C:\ux\XB33\py36_x86\lib\site-packages\wheel\pep425tags.py:81:
> RuntimeWarning: Config variable 'WITH_PYMALLOC' is unset,
>> Python ABI tag may be incorrect
>>   warn=(impl == 'cp')):
>
> is this something I need to worry about?

IIRC, these warnings have been suppressed in a newer version of pip 
(possibly not released yet?). They are harmless on Windows.

We do need to update the bundled version of pip in 3.6, preferably 
before b3, to pick up the fixes to distlib and the fix for these warnings.

Cheers,
Steve


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