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

[Robert Collins]

They're definitely separate; there's a draft PEP Tennessee and I
started at PyCon AU 2014 which would make a good basis for such an
effort.

-Rob

On 23 June 2016 at 09:42, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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> On Jun 22, 2016, at 5:38 PM, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 22, 2016, at 12:21, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> If we want to treat distros as first-class deployment targets I think being
> able to use their platform features in a way that's compatible with PyPI is
> an important next step.  However, wheel tags might be insufficient here; the
> main appeal of creating distro-specific wheels is being able to use
> distro-specific features, but those typically come along with specific
> package dependencies as well, and we don't have a way to express those yet.
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> I don’t think these two things need to be bound together. People can already
> today depend on platform specific things just by not publishing wheels.
> Adding these tags naturally follows that, where people would need to
> manually install items from the OS before they used them. Adding some
> mechanism for automating this would be a good, further addition, but I think
> they are separately useful (and even more useful and powerful when
> combined).
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> I think this is worthwhile to do, but figuring out a way to do it is
> probably going to take a lot of discussion.
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> -glyph
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