[Distutils] [final version?] PEP 513 - A Platform Tag for Portable Linux Built Distributions

Alexander Walters tritium-list at sdamon.com
Mon Feb 1 18:47:50 EST 2016



On 2/1/2016 18:37, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 30.01.2016 00:29, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I think this is ready for pronouncement now -- thanks to everyone for
>> all their feedback over the last few weeks!
>
> I don't think so.  I am biased because I'm the maintainer for Python 
> in Debian/Ubuntu.  So I would like to have some feedback from 
> maintainers of Python in other Linux distributions (Nick, no, you're 
> not one of these).
>
> The proposal just takes some environment and declares that as a 
> standard.  So everybody wanting to supply these wheels basically has 
> to use this environment. Without giving any details, without giving 
> any advise how to produce such wheels in other environments. Without 
> giving any hints how such wheels may be broken with newer 
> environments.  Without mentioning this is am64/i386 only.
> There might be more. Pretty please be specific about your 
> environment.  Have a look how the LSB specifies requirements on the 
> runtime environment ... and then ask yourself why the lsb doesn't have 
> any real value.
>
> Matthias
>
I... Thought the environment this pep describes is the docker image, and 
only the docker image, and anything not made on that docker image is in 
violation of the pep.



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