On Aug 21, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 August 2013 11:39, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 21 August 2013 11:29, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I may have misunderstood it but looking at this >>> >>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/tools/win32build/nsis_scripts/numpy-superinstaller.nsi.in#L147 >>> I think that the installer ships variants for each architecture and >>> decides at install time which to place on the target system. If that's >>> the case then would it be possible for a wheel to ship all variants so >>> that a post-install script could sort it out (rename/delete) after the >>> wheel is installed? >> >> Wheel 1.0 does not have the ability to bundle multiple versions (and I don't >> think tags are fine-grained enough to cover the differences numpy need, >> which are at the "do you have the SSE instruction set?" level AIUI). >> Multi-version wheels are a possible future extension, but I don't know if >> anyone has thought about fine-grained tags. > > No, but the wheel could do like the current numpy installer and ship > _numpy.pyd.nosse > _numpy.pyd.sse1 > _numpy.pyd.sse2 > _numpy.pyd.sse3 > as platlib files and then a post-install script can check for SSE > support, rename the appropriate file to _numpy.pyd and delete the > other _numpy.pyd.* files. > >> This is precisely the sort of input that the numpy people could provide to >> make sure that the wheel design covers their needs. > > I'm I right in guessing (since the question keeps being evaded :) ) > that a post-install script is not possible with pip+wheel+PyPI?. > > > Oscar > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig Metadata 2.0 includes the ability to have a post install script, but Wheel is not yet using Metadata 2.0 (and it's not yet finalized). ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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