[Distutils] Re: manylinux1 guidelines for zlib?

2018-09-05 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Sep 5, 2018, at 9:30 AM, Tzu-ping Chung wrote: > > Isn’t zlib only required for compression? It is my impression that zipfile’s > decompressor is pure Python, > and only depends on zlib if the archive is encrypted (but wheels are never > encrypted). > > zlib also does not provide

[Distutils] Re: manylinux1 guidelines for zlib?

2018-09-05 Thread Tzu-ping Chung
Isn’t zlib only required for compression? It is my impression that zipfile’s decompressor is pure Python, and only depends on zlib if the archive is encrypted (but wheels are never encrypted). zlib also does not provide decompression at its core; for that you need zlib/contrib/minizip, but I

[Distutils] Adopting virtualenv package maintenance

2018-09-05 Thread Sorin Sbarnea
As it seems that virtualenv package is in need of some maintenance effort, focused mostly on doing reviews, closing or merging them and eventually doing a new release once a month. I know that virtualenv is in deprecation mode as its would be no longer needed when Python2 will no longer be

[Distutils] Re: Environment markers for GPU/CUDA availibility

2018-09-05 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Sep 4, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Wes Turner wrote: > > What's Fastly's monthly/yearly cost? The PSF “Bill” for Fastly in August was $132,086.96 before the discount which brought it down to $0. I think that might be missing a thousand or two in extra features that were manually enabled for our

[Distutils] Re: manylinux1 guidelines for zlib?

2018-09-05 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Sep 4, 2018, at 6:06 AM, Alex Walters wrote: > > Since zlib is a dependency of python, the assumption has to be that it is > already present. It is technically an optional dependency of Python, though I don’t think you can install wheels without zlib present since wheels are zip files