Re: [Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux2

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Alex Walters wrote: > Just out of curiosity, I did a little experiment. I explained this thread > to my mother. My mother is a wonderful woman, but she wouldn't know a byte > from a bite. I explained it as follows: > > "There is a tool

Re: [Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux2

Just out of curiosity, I did a little experiment. I explained this thread to my mother. My mother is a wonderful woman, but she wouldn't know a byte from a bite. I explained it as follows: "There is a tool that can make software run on a lot of different computers, but only if you build it for

Re: [Distutils] Installed Extras Metadata

On 11 February 2018 at 19:17, Nathaniel Smith wrote: [snip a potential plan for migrating to extras-as-virtual-packages] > - When pip needs to find a wheel like 'requests[security]', then it > first checks to see if this exact wheel (with the brackets) is > available on PyPI (or

Re: [Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux2

On 10 February 2018 at 16:03, Mark Williams wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 05:55:36PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> By contrast, year-based CalVer maintains distro-neutrality, while also >> giving a good sense of the maximum age of compatible target platforms. >> (e.g.

Re: [Distutils] Installed Extras Metadata

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 8:37 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 27 January 2018 at 13:46, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> >> The advantages are: >> >> - it's a simpler way to record information the information you want >> here, without adding more special cases to