On 30 January 2016 at 05:30, Nate Coraor <n...@bx.psu.edu> wrote: > I wonder if, in relation to this, it may be best to have two separate tags: > one to indicate that the wheel includes external libraries rolled in to it, > and one to indicate that it doesn't. That way, a user can make a conscious > decision as to whether they want to install any wheels that could include > libraries that won't be maintained by the distribution package manager. That > way if we end up in a future world where manylinux wheels and > distro-specific wheels (that may depend on non-default distro packages) live > in PyPI together, there'd be a way to indicate a preference.
I don't think we want to go into that level of detail in the platform tag, but metadata for bundled pre-built binaries in wheels and vendored dependencies in sdists is worth considering as an enhancement in its own right. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
