Re: [Distutils] API CHANGE - Migrating from MD5 to SHA2, Take 2

2014-11-29 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Nov 13, 2014, at 9:21 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > Starting a new thread with more explicit details at Richard’s request. > Essentially the tl;dr here is that we'll switch to using sha2 (specifically > sha256). Ping? Are we OK to make this change? --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 63

Re: [Distutils] Proposal: using /etc/os-release in the "platform tag" definition for wheel files

2014-11-29 Thread Donald Stufft
Binary compatibility is not something that is my strong suite, however I think that whatever we do should be aimed at eventual support of uploading Linux binaries to PyPI. Currently we allow Windows and OSX and from what I understand the same Linux ABI problems can happen in those situations, it's

Re: [Distutils] Proposal: using /etc/os-release in the "platform tag" definition for wheel files

2014-11-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:02:57 +1000 Nick Coghlan wrote: > Many users (quite reasonably, if they're primarily Python developers) > have problems working through build failures when attempting to > install non-Python extensions from source. Such build failures are > usually models of clarity compared

Re: [Distutils] Proposal: using /etc/os-release in the "platform tag" definition for wheel files

2014-11-29 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/29/2014 11:10 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > For me practicality means being able to build a single binary package > for all recent Linux distros in a best effort approach. I can't imagine finding any such binary useful (assuming a none-pure-Pyth

Re: [Distutils] Proposal: using /etc/os-release in the "platform tag" definition for wheel files

2014-11-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 November 2014 at 02:10, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:47:16 +1000 > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> On 29 November 2014 at 01:51, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> > On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 01:27:44 +1000 >> > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Is this not going to be a slippery slope? >> >>

Re: [Distutils] Proposal: using /etc/os-release in the "platform tag" definition for wheel files

2014-11-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:47:16 +1000 Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 29 November 2014 at 01:51, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 01:27:44 +1000 > > Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> > > >> > Is this not going to be a slippery slope? > >> > >> Only if folks publish Linux binaries themselves, and that'

Re: [Distutils] Proposal: using /etc/os-release in the "platform tag" definition for wheel files

2014-11-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 29 November 2014 at 01:51, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 01:27:44 +1000 > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> > >> > Is this not going to be a slippery slope? >> >> Only if folks publish Linux binaries themselves, and that's still a >> bad idea (for the same reason publishing distro binaries