[openstack-dev] universal wheel support

Doug Hellmann doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com
Mon Feb 10 16:00:17 UTC 2014


On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:

> Hey all!
>
> There are a bunch of patches adding:
>
> [wheel]
> universal = 1
>
> to setup.cfg:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+topic:wheel-publish,n,z
>
> I wanted to follow up on what the deal is with them, and what I think we
> should do about them.
>
> universal means that a wheel can be made that can work with any python.
> That's awesome, and we want it - it makes the wheel publishing code easier.
> I don't think we want it turned on for any project that doesn't, in fact,
> support python3 - because we'd be producing a wheel that says it works in
> python3.
>
> To be fair - the wheel itself will work just fine in python3 - it's just
> the software that doesn't - and we upload tarballs right now which don't
> block attempts to use them in python3.
>
> SO -
>
> my pedantic side says:
>
> "Let's only land universal = 1 into python3 supporting projects"
>
> upon further reflection, I think my other side says:
>
> "It's fine, let's land it everywhere, it doesn't hurt anything, and then
> we can stop worrying about it"
>
> Thoughts?
>

Do we have any non-library projects that support python 3?

Doug



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