On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 23:53:59 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 July 2015 at 07:46, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 22:34:38 +0100 > > Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 6 July 2015 at 19:18, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > >> > What if packagers take care of working around the issue? > >> > (for example by building on a suitably old Linux platform, as we > >> > already do for Conda packages) > >> > >> At the moment it's just a simple "if the wheel is for Linux, reject it" > >> test. > >> > >> As to whether that's too conservative, one of the Linux guys would > >> need to comment. Maybe the issue is simply that we can't be sure > >> people will take the care that you do, and the risk of people getting > >> broken installs is too high? > > > > Then how about a warning, or a rejection by default with a well-known > > way to bypass it? > > Unfortunately, the compatibility tagging for Linux wheels is currently > so thoroughly inadequate that even in tightly controlled environments > having a wheel file escape from its "intended" target platforms can > cause hard to debug problems.
I'm not sure what you're pointing to, could you elaborate a bit? For the record, building against a well-known, old glibc + gcc has served the Anaconda platform well. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
