Hi, On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> > So without a plan to provide all that stuff -- I"m not sure of the >> > utility >> > of this -- how are you gong to get PIL/Pillow to work? statically link >> > up >> > the ying-yang? Not sure the linux world will take to that. >> >> That's exactly how the current OSX Pillow wheels work, and they've >> been working fine for a while now. There just aren't that many >> libraries to worry about for the vast majority of packages. > > > well, that was really intended to be only an example. And OS-X provides more > basic libs than manylinux anyway (zlib, freetype, either png or jpeg, can't > remember which). > > The library list got long enough to drive me crazy -- I guess you've got > more patience than I have. Tried to build any OSGEO stuff lately?
I'm sure there are packages that would be hard to build, but for the vast majority of packages, getting a build recipe is a one-time only job which might (in bad cases) take a day or so, and then can be maintained from time to time by the package maintainer. The Pillow wheel builder is a good example - I built the prototype, but the Pillow guys own and maintain it now. I don't think it's sensible to veto all linux wheels because there are some packages that will be hard to build. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
