On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 26, 2010, at 06:04 PM, Chris Withers wrote: > >>In addition to the UCS2/4 problems already described by MAL and which >>I've bumped into myself, I now have a problem with binary linux eggs >>where the GCC version doesn't match that of the system the egg is >>being installed on. >> >>Current egg metadata doesn't take either of these into account or even >>provide a way for the nature of the binary egg to be recorded. >> >>How're people coping with this? >>What are the future plans in this area? > > I wonder if any distutils experts would care to comment on PEP 3149, and its > applicability to this problem? > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3149/ > > Is there any way this PEP can help? Do you have any comments that I should > add to the PEP?
AFAIK, this PEP helps for ABI issues *within* one platform at one given version. But this does not cope with the issue of inter-distributions ABI (which I think is hopelessly intractable unless you bundle almost everything, which is what everybody is doing outside the system packaging system) cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
