On May 19, 2014, at 01:33 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: >I would like to avoid different wheel directories in /usr/share, so if the >name of the wheel encodes the python version, then they probably can live in >the same directory.
PEP 427 provides a tagging scheme that allows differentiation in the file name. Universal wheels will be tagged "py2-py3-none-any" meaning they work for any Python 2 or 3 version, have no ABI tag (i.e. they are pure Python) and work on any platform. If we had to, we could tag things e.g. py34-cp34m-linux_x86_64 which could live along side a py27-none-any wheel. Think of it as PEP 3147/3149 for wheel files. We gain the same single-directory benefits here too. >The GNUstep apps are packaged as .app, so why not use .wheel? then even > > python-wheel.wheel > >becomes clear ... and it's the singular. On May 19, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >[Matthias Klose, 2014-05-19] >> python-wheel.wheel >> >> becomes clear ... and it's the singular. > >IMO -wheel or -wheels is a better name - it's clear that the second >"wheel" is not part of namespace this way. We already have -doc, -ext, >etc. for special packages, lets keep "-" for wheels as well I also favor - instead of . Maybe we could use -whl as a package name suffix. It's a little less clear as to its purpose (e.g. in a package name search listing for html5lib), but it mimics the file extension of the things it contains. It's also shorter and avoids the singular/plural distinction. Highly unlikely that there will be a package name clash in the future. I don't expect to see py.whl-whl any time soon. :) Cheers, -Barry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140519100658.60a02...@anarchist.wooz.org
