Axle is Python wheel enhancement library
Project description
Wheel Axle - Python Wheel enhancement library
Problem
- Python wheel does not support symlinks.
- Python wheel does not support overwriting in a convenient way:
- whether the distribution is pure-Python
- distribution ABI tag
- extend Python tag override capability
Solution
WARNING: THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL BETA SOFTWARE. THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. ADDITIONAL INCLUDED DISCLAIMERS ALSO APPLY.
Wheel-Axle (axle
, bdist_axle
) is a drop-in replacement/augmentation utility for wheel
(bdist_wheel
)
that extends and builds spec-compliant wheels.
During the build, axle
is able to capture and record in the Python wheel the symlinks in the following
schema paths (locations):
- purelib
- platlib
- scripts
- headers
- data
Additionally, Axle
is able to customize the Python wheel tags via additional command line options.
While the generated Python wheel is fully spec-compliant, additional symlink functionality is not possible without its
companion library Wheel Axle Runtime. Thus, every Python wheel
generated by the bdist_axle
automatically becomes dependent on wheel-axle-runtime
that provides
post-install logic required.
Implementation
The body of the library is as ugly and messy as distutils
/setuptools
are, and consists of, mainly, in
hacking/overwriting various setuptools
commands to detect, handle and record symlinks and their targets. Once that
problem is solved, the list of symlinks is recorded in the .dist-info/symlinks.txt
in the following CSV format:
- symlink name
- symlink target
- a boolean (0 or 1) flag indicating whether the target is a directory
NOTE: Symlinks may be relative, absolute and/or broken. Symlink targets are recorded verbatim (even when broken) and are NOT otherwise interpreted. THIS IS INTENTIONAL. Please see Wheel Axle Runtime Security Notice for additional information.
A special <distribution name and version>.pth
file is also added to the distribution. When the wheel is installed
this .pth
file triggers the post-install logic via
wheel-axle-runtime.
Usage
python setup.py bdist_wheel <arguments>
can be replaced with python setup.py bdist_axle <arguments>
. The replacement
is drop-in.
Additional functionality is available via the following options:
--python-tag Python implementation compatibility tag (default: 'py3')
--root-is-pure set to manually override whether the wheel is
pure (default: None)
--abi-tag set to override ABI tag (default: None)
--require-libpython set to indicate the package requires libpython in the
exec_prefix/platlib
Using --python-tag
, --root-is-pure
and --abi-tag
allows you to create wheels that carry platform-dependent data
while otherwise containing pure-Python libraries.
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