On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2016 8:47 AM, "Nate Coraor" <n...@bx.psu.edu> wrote: > > > [...] > > - Add SOABI tags to platform-specific wheels built for Python 2.X (Pull > Request > > #55, Issue #63, Issue #101) > > I can't quite untangle all the documents linked from this PR, so let me > ask here :-). Does this mean that python 2.x extension wheels now can and > should declare whether they're assuming the 16- or 32-bit Unicode ABI > inside the abi field? And if so, should PEP 513 be updated to allow for > both options to be used with manylinux1? (Right not manylinux1 just > implies/requires a UCS4 build, for older pythons where this matters.) > > -n > It isn't declared, wheel determines the ABI of the interpreter upon which the wheel is being built and tags it accordingly. So yes, I think a PEP 513 update is appropriate. As to whether the manylinux1 Docker images should include UCS-2 Pythons is a separate question, though. If there's interest, I can provide statistics of how many of Galaxy's UCS-2 Linux eggs were downloaded over time. --nate
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