[Python-ideas] Re: Adding support for adequately tagging AIX (pep425) to support distributed wheels

2019-09-01 Thread Michael Felt
I conclude my writing style has not helped soliciting responses. I would appreciate them. Summary - what I would like to say - is that there are platforms that have been successful in applying PEP425's definitions of tagging Python and modules. Looking at the modules pip and wheel I can verify i

[Python-ideas] Re: Adding support for adequately tagging AIX (pep425) to support distributed wheels

2019-09-01 Thread Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas
On Sep 1, 2019, at 13:04, Michael Felt wrote: > > I conclude my writing style has not helped soliciting responses. > > I would appreciate them. Maybe you’re just asking in the wrong place? I think most discussions on issues like this happen on distutils-sig or one of the more specific PyPA lis

[Python-ideas] Re: Adding support for adequately tagging AIX (pep425) to support distributed wheels

2019-09-01 Thread Michael Felt
Among other places, Python ideas was recommended as a place to goto. In the meantime I have been discussing this on pypa/pip (mainly), and also on wheel and packaging. Even submitted PRs. But the PRs are only needed if the tag is inadequate. So, part of my reason for being here is to figure o

[Python-ideas] Re: Custom string prefixes

2019-09-01 Thread Pasha Stetsenko
> Don't say that this proposal won't be abused. Every one of the OP's > motivating examples is an abuse of the syntax, returning non-strings > from something that looks like a string. If you strongly believe that if something looks like a string it ought to quack like a string too, then we can