Makes sense to me. Could be an environment variable or bdist_wheel option or both.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:10 PM Robert Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > So the pip wheel caching feature has promoted a few latent problems > into the limelight. > > One is that many wheels projects built are not actually as compatible > as thought. https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2882 > One is that wheels don't support writing datafiles outside their > environment. https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2874 > And the one I want to talk about is that we don't generate > sufficiently good platform markers on Linux. > https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2875 > > That bug describes the scenario of using a wheel cache shared across > multiple Linux ABIs - e.g. LXC containers with a bind mounted home > dir, or NFS on a cluster. pip 7's implicit wheel cache triggers this > situation for people. > > The OP has suggested that being able to control the platform tag that > pip a) looks for and b) instructs wheel to use would let them avoid > issues in this situation without having to solve the general problem > of 'the universe of Linuxs can't agree on anything'. > > e.g, in each context they could set a /etc/pip.conf containing > [global] > wheel_platform = contextname > > and then pip would use that and instruct built wheels to use that. > > Further, they not that it can be used to e.g. describe other local > policies like 'I want hardened C builds' that are not inferrable from > context at all today. > > But since this affects pip *and* wheel, we're bringing it here for > discussion. > > I'm in favour of it - it fits the existing wheel spec; its opt-in, > non-intrusive and solves a real, present problem. [just not the 'how > do we get these damn things into PyPI, yet]. > > -Rob > > -- > Robert Collins <[email protected]> > Distinguished Technologist > HP Converged Cloud > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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