Re: Approaching wheel 1.0

On 17 July 2018 at 23:44,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Today I pushed 29 new commits to the pypa/wheel repository, closing around
> 15 issues. This is a major overhaul/refactoring of the wheel project. Here's
> the short list of major changes:
>
> * The documentation has been rewritten to conform to PyPA guidelines
> (https://gist.github.com/qwcode/8431828)
> * Wheel signing and verifying features were stripped out, as they were
> scarcely used and would have potentially presented a significant maintenance
> burden
> * The wheel install feature was also stripped out, largely from the same
> reason as above
> * Added a new command, "wheel pack" that will create a new wheel file from a
> previously unpacked wheel directory, regenerating the RECORD file in the
> process
> * Added a new metadata key, "license_files" which can be used to include
> multiple license files in wheels (this deprecates the "license_file" key)

Very cool!

> There are still a few issues to work out before I'm comfortable releasing
> 1.0.0 final. For that, I would like to enlist the help of the Python
> packaging community, as I may not have the necessary expertise:
>
> * Py_UNICODE_SIZE / WITH_PYMALLOC / Py_DEBUG on Windows:
> https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/171
> * Supporting tools like milksnake by allowing platform specific wheel tags
> with ABI set to "none":
> * https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/125
> * https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/153
> * https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/175
> * https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/185
> * Automatically detecting C extensions that use the limited ABI and tagging
> wheels without an explicit --py-limited-abi:
> https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/198
> * bdist_wheel not cleaning build directory (really a distutils problem, but
> can wheel reasonably do something here?)
> https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/117
>
> I mostly need help defining the concrete steps to take to resolve these
> issues.

I've commented where I could, but that was basically just the ones
where you seemed to be pondering possible command line UX options -
for the ones related to the actual extension module build process, I
believe you already know significantly more than I do :(

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   [email protected]   |   Brisbane, Australia
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