On 16/7/21 9:11 pm, Chris Barker wrote:
Just a note on:
> For the record, I am +1 on removing sdists from PyPI until pip changes
its default to --only-binary :all: [1]
I agree that the defaults for pip are unfortunate (and indeed the
legacy of pip doing, well, a lot, (i.e. building and installing and
package managing and dependencies, and ...) with one interface.
However, There's a long tradition of sdists on PyPi -- and PyPi is
used, for the most part, as the source of sdists for other systems
(conda-forge for example). I did just check, and numpy is an exception
-- it's pointing to gitHub:
source:
url: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/download/v{{
<https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/download/v{{> version
}}/numpy-{{ version }}.tar.gz
But others may be counting on sdists on PyPi.
Also, an sdist is not always the same as a gitHub release -- there is
some "magic" in building it -- it's not just a copy of the repo.
Again, numpy may be building its releases as an sdist (or it just
doesn't. matter), but something to keep in mind.
Another thought is to only support platforms that have a
committed maintainer -- I think that's how Python itself does it. The
more obscure platforms are only supported if someone steps up to
support them (I suppose that's technically true for all platforms, but
not hard to find someone on the existing core dev team to support the
majors). This can be a bit tricky, as the users of a platform may not
have the skills to maintain the builds, but it seems fair enough to
only support platforms that someone cares enough about to do the work.
-CHB
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Matti
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