[Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux1

[Robert T. McGibbon]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> On Jan 21, 2016, at 10:27 PM, Robert T. McGibbon <rmcgibbo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I'm hopeful that in the future, if this PEP is accepted
> and we can make the tooling and documentation excellent, uploading Linux
> wheels can start to become a
> standard part of the PyPI release cycle for package maintainers.
>
>
>
> Longer term, I really want to (but have put zero effort into trying to
> plan it out beyond pie in the sky dreams) have it so that maintainers can
> publish a sdist to PyPI, and have PyPI automatically build wheels for you.
> This is a long way down the road though.
>


Yes, absolutely! I think this will actually not be _too_ difficult for
Linux (because docker). The challenges for Windows
and OS X are more significant.  For the open source communities that I'm
involved in, Travis-CI has really made everyone much more aware and
comfortable with Linux container-based web services that compile our
packages, so
a PyPI wheel farm seems very much within reach over the next year or so.

-Robert
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