Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:02:18 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Zhihao Yuan <zy@miator.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding Python 2.7 to linux-c7 Message-ID: <20171113150218.69d12951@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGsORuBA-WcQBnFAqAs8kwSGSnTiUb60D8aY5GvxEoox0D=80Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGsORuAS=CKXxkzXfamdJ9h8h=15X1R%2BvS7dmRwaKPQGJhgWbQ@mail.gmail.com> <20171111171247.5ed81813@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <CAGsORuBA-WcQBnFAqAs8kwSGSnTiUb60D8aY5GvxEoox0D=80Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:08:03 -0600 Zhihao Yuan <zy@miator.net> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> The motivation is that some Python software ship Linux- >>> specific binaries, and we want to enable the uses. >> >> Can you give an example of such software, because adding python and >> its modules is a big decision. > > This is the one our research team is > working on: > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sciunit2 The source code appears to be at https://bitbucket.org/geotrust/sciunit2/src so why not create a regular FreeBSD port? > It doesn't work in linuxulator yet, but > our further contribution may make it > work. I could try to ship on > > https://conda.io/docs/index.html > > but still, pypi is a much easier platform > to approach for the users. > > Since Python added manylinux1 abi > support to wheels, I suspect that it > may be popular to ship Linux-specific > binaries -- unless we propose a > freebsd abi to PEP? > > And I don't think this is a *big* decision... > All we need are just Python modules > with Linux binaries, we are not asking > for packaging everything starting from > setuptools! I see. I'm going to hold off on committing them though, until you have something that actually works. I don't want to add ports that nobody uses.
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