WheelNext and Wheel Variants [discussion of future plans for Python wheels]

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zahlman · 9h ago

Original title: WheelNext & Wheel Variants: An update, and a request for feedback!

This is an active thread on the official Python discussion forums that I think deserves even wider attention. I previously also submitted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44611171) LWN coverage (https://lwn.net/Articles/1028299/) of the WheelNext project, which is trying to figure out how to expand the wheel format to serve more use cases while maintaining interoperability and backwards compatibility with existing tools.

mathiaspoint · 9h ago

It sounds like they're... Reinventing the wheel!

This is great! I avoided pytorch for way too long partly because the wheels were such a pain.

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WheelNext and Wheel Variants [discussion of future plans for Python wheels]

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