Henry Schreiner

> The downside of an extension API are of course the burden of maintaining it The benefit is we'd only have to maintain that, not the cross-compiling extension too, though....

Could this be cleanly implemented as a new platform? "crosslinux" as the platform, perhaps? then crosslinux.py would sit beside linux.py, windows.py, and macos.py. This would get rid of a lot...

(this is also what I was thinking about as a "plugin" system - if an unrecognized platform was looked up through an entrypoint, then most of the logic would sit...

Wait, can you load a remote template in Azure? With parameters? [https://github.com/scikit-hep/azure-wheel-helpers](azure-wheel-helpers) would likely have lasted longer if I knew about this (but probably best I didn't, as the transition...

This might affect us: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7555 pip 21.3 is the target and it's experimentally available now via a feature flag.

Pip 21.3 is out, but a bit stuck on manylinux not being able to update due to travis issues https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/pull/1207 - but you don't ever need options added to cibuildwheel...

Pip 21.3 is now the default, so this is half way optimized (and fully optimized on non-linux).

That’s not what that range means. It uses one version from that, and the outer host setting shouldn’t matter. I wish we printed the details of the mismatch. We are...

Why is it using `/opt/python/cp38-cp38/bin/python`? Host is 3.10 and target is 3.11. Don’t get where 3.8 is sneaking in.

We need to detect this then, rather than grabbing a random Python. :) manylinux1 is “dead”, it’s just still being built while CI doesn’t break, so it’s not getting anything...