Build a wheel for Tauthon?

[dan-stromberg]

I'm attempting to build and install a tauthon, binary, linux wheel for https://github.com/numenta/nupic.core , to be used inside a container, rather than building it inside the (minimalist) container every time the container is initialized.

I came up with a small set of patches to pip and wheel that enable this, but I suspect these changes have already been made to the upstream code and simply hasn't made it to the production releases of pip and wheel yet. Otherwise, how is it that numpy is already available?

Is this the case? I hope there's been no resistance to adding Tauthon support to pip and wheel.

What pep425 tag is Tauthon going with? I arbitrarily used 'ta', but I'm more than open to switching to something else if it's the direction Tauthon is heading.

Thanks!

[stefantalpalaru]

What pep425 tag is Tauthon going with? I arbitrarily used 'ta'

How about "ta28"?

[dan-stromberg]

When I said "ta", I meant "ta[version]". The first wheel I built this way was:
nupic.bindings-1.0.7.dev0-ta28-none-linux_x86_64.whl
In the code, in some places, it's just "ta".

[stefantalpalaru]

OK. That looks fine.

[dan-stromberg]

Sadly, at least some of the pip folks are leaning away from adding Tauthon support to pip, and want a PEP 425 change before adding support for Tauthon to pip.

I'm not sure I can justify doing the PEP change on-the-clock at my employer - but if someone else has the time, that'd be terrific.

[dan-stromberg]

It sounds like not-quite-this, but something roughly equivalent, is happening:
pypa/packaging#193
pypa/pip#6908

^_^

[stefantalpalaru]

Solved by both Pip and Tauthon supporting PEP 421 and the creation of this external Virtualenv plugin: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/virtualenv-tauthon