[Python-Dev] PEP 0404 and VS 2010

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Thu Nov 21 22:31:01 CET 2013


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 November 2013 21:02, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Is that much different from package authors having to
>> release binaries for different versions of Python,
>> if they want to support older versions?
>>
>> Having multiple binaries for the same x.y version
>> is different from what's been done before, but it
>> seems to me an unavoidable consequence of supporting
>> one x.y version for longer than usual.
>
> None of the currently available binary distribution formats
> distinguish Windows binaries by anything other than minor version. For
> wheels (and I think eggs), this is a showstopper as the name is
> essential metadata (compatibility tags) for the other formats (wininst
> and msi) the name is merely informational - packagers could rename,
> but (a) they will forget, and (b) the users won't know if they have or
> not.
>
> Before we can cleanly support multiple ABIs for a single minor version
> on Windows, we need to have a resolution of this dilemma (which may be
> nothing more than "only binaries for the python.org builds are allowed
> on PyPI"...)
>
> Paul

As for wheel it actually does support an ABI tag that is separate from
the Python version and the architecture. It's the second one
pyversion-abi-architecture as in py27-none-any or py27-cp27-linux_i386
(spelling?). The build tool and installer would have to be modified to
be aware of any newly defined ABI tags.


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