[Numpy-discussion] Renaming OSX wheels on pypi to make them more general

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is actually for both of numpy and scipy.
> >
> > I would like to rename the current OSX wheels on pypi so that they
> > will be installed by default on system python, homebrew, macports, as
> > well as Python.org Python.
> >
> > At the moment, they will only be found and installed by default by
> > Python.org Python.
> >
> > For reasons explained here:
> >
> > https://github.com/MacPython/wiki/wiki/Spinning-wheels
> >
> > and confirmed with testing here:
> >
> >
> https://travis-ci.org/matthew-brett/scipy-stack-osx-testing/builds/25131865
> >
> > - OSX wheels built for Python.org python do in fact work correctly for
> > the homebrew, macports and system python.
> >
> > In fact, future versions of pip will very likely offer the Python.org
> > OSX wheels for installation on these other systems by default:
> >
> > https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/1465
> >
> > Renaming the wheels just adds the 'platform tag' for these other
> > versions of Python to the wheel name, so pip sees they are compatible.
> >
> > For example, I propose to rename the current numpy wheel from:
> >
> > numpy-1.8.1-cp27-none-macosx_10_6_intel.whl
> >
> > to:
> >
> >
> numpy-1.8.1-cp27-none-macosx_10_6_intel.macosx_10_9_intel.macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl
> >
> > I think this is only an improvement to the current situation, in that
> > users of pip on these other OSX systems will get a fast binary install
> > rather than a slow compiled install.
> >
> > Any comments?
>
> OK - I propose to go ahead with this on Monday unless there are any
> objections.
>

+1   I don't see any problem with this.

Ralf

Here's the latest test grid showing tests passing on Python.org /
> system python / homebrew / macports using numpy / scipy / matplotlib
> wheels with the proposed naming scheme:
>
> https://travis-ci.org/matthew-brett/scipy-stack-osx-testing/builds/26482436
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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