[Python-Dev] new binary wheels PEP idea

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Feb 19 16:41:00 EST 2019


Unfortunately you're still posted to the wrong list, Alexander. You want to
mail distutils-sig at python.org where packaging discussions occur.

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 8:19 AM Alexander Revin <lyssdod at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have an idea regarding Python binary wheels on non-glibc platforms,
> and it seems that initially I've posted it to the wrong list ([1])
>
> Long story short, the proposal is to use platform tuples (like
> compiler ones) for wheel names, which will allow much broader platform
> support, for example:
>
> package-1.0-cp36-cp36m-amd64_linux_gnu.whl
> package-1.0-cp36-cp36m-amd64_linux_musl.whl
>
> So eventually only {platform tag} part will be modified. Glibc/musl
> detection is quite trivial and eventually will be based on existing
> one in PEP 513 [2].
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex
>
> [1]
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2019-February/739524.html
> [2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0513/#id49
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