[Distutils] Proposal: using /etc/os-release in the "platform tag" definition for wheel files

[Nathaniel Smith]

There are still use cases for distro-specific wheels, though -- some
examples include Raspbian wheels (manylinux1 is x86/x86-64 only), Alpine
Linux wheels (manylinux1 is glibc only), internal deploys that want to
build on Ubuntu 14.04 and deploy on 14.04 and don't need the hassle of
generating manylinux-style binaries but would like a more meaningful
platform tag than "linux", and for everyone who wants to extend wheel
metadata to allow dependencies on external distro packages then having
distro-specific wheels is probably a necessary first step.

-n
On Jun 22, 2016 09:49, "Noah Kantrowitz" <noah at coderanger.net> wrote:

Manylinux has mostly replaced it as that covers the platforms 99% of people
worry about. The tooling for manylinux is more complex than this would have
been, but sunk cost etc etc and now that we have it might as well save
everyone some headache.

--Noah

> On Jun 22, 2016, at 8:51 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I believe the status is that there's general consensus that something
like this would be useful, but there's no one who is currently actively
working in it.
>
> On Jun 22, 2016 5:53 AM, "Vitaly Kruglikov" <vkruglikov at numenta.com>
wrote:
> There have been no updates in over a year. Has this effort died, or
transitioned to another medium? Thx
>
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