[openstack-dev] universal wheel support

Joe Gordon joe.gordon0 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 10 18:14:04 UTC 2014


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Doug Hellmann
<doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
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>> Hey all!
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>> There are a bunch of patches adding:
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>> [wheel]
>> universal = 1
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>> to setup.cfg:
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>> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+topic:wheel-publish,n,z
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>> I wanted to follow up on what the deal is with them, and what I think we
>> should do about them.
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>> 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.
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>> SO -
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>> my pedantic side says:
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>> "Let's only land universal = 1 into python3 supporting projects"
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>> upon further reflection, I think my other side says:
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>> "It's fine, let's land it everywhere, it doesn't hurt anything, and then
>> we can stop worrying about it"
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>> Thoughts?
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> Do we have any non-library projects that support python 3?


yes, python-novaclient and many more

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Python3


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