[Python-ideas] Wheels For ...

[Sven R. Kunze]

Another example for the sake of documentation:

https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/issues/1383#issuecomment-84098055



On 07.09.2015 07:39, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>
> On Sep 6, 2015 10:28 PM, "Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas" 
> <python-ideas at python.org <mailto:python-ideas at python.org>> wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 6, 2015, at 21:20, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io 
> <mailto:donald at stufft.io>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Let's take lxml for
> > > example which binds against libxml2. It needs built on Windows, it 
> needs built
> > > on OSX, it needs built on various Linux distributions in order to 
> cover the
> > > spread of just the common cases.
> >
> > IIRC, Apple included ancient versions (even at the time) of libxml2 
> up to around 10.7, and at one point they even included one of the 
> broken 2.7.x versions. So a build farm building for 10.6+ (which I 
> think is what python.org <http://python.org> builds still target?) is 
> going to build against an ancient libxml2, meaning some features of 
> lxml2 will be disabled, and others may even be broken. Even if I'm 
> remembering wrong about Apple, I'm sure there are linux distros with 
> similar issues.
> >
> > Fortunately, lxml has a built-in option (triggered by an env 
> variable) for dealing with this, by downloading the source, building a 
> local copy of the libs, and statically linking them into lxml, but 
> that means you need some way for a package to specify env variables to 
> be set on the build server. And can you expect most libraries with 
> similar issues to do the same?
>
> Yes, you can! :-)
>
> I mean, not everyone will necessarily use it, but adding code like
>
> if "PYPI_BUILD_SERVER" in os.environ:
>     do_static_link = True
>
> to your setup.py is *wayyyy* easier than buying an OS X machine and 
> maintaining it and doing manual builds at every release. Or finding a 
> volunteer who has an OS X box and nagging them at every release and 
> dealing with trust hassles.
>
> And there are a lot of packages out there that just have some cython 
> files in them for speedups with no external dependencies, or whatever. 
> A build farm wouldn't have to be perfect to be extremely useful.
>
> -n
>
>
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