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Do you have a reference for that? IIRC binary wheels have been supported for ages and not just in 20+ (which was released this year).
by hobofan 6y ago
Do you have a reference for that? IIRC binary wheels have been supported for ages and not just in 20+ (which was released this year).
- dralley 6y agoWhat the likely mean, is that newer versions of pip support newer platforms underpinning the binary packages. Python binary packages are a bit of a kludge, they take a binary built on a base platform like CentOS 5, and use tools like patchelf to take all the libraries that they dynamically link against and re-wrap them in a new package. Until about a year ago, CentOS 5 was the newest base platform available. So if your library needed a glibc feature or some other library feature from the past decade you were SoL.
- asah 6y agothx - this is actually v helpful to me. yay for HN!