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platform-independent wheels

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Related to #43 . A platform-independent pure-python wheel on pypi would be very useful for dependency resolution in linux projects. PyYAML-?.??-py35-none-any.whl Ultimately a manylinux wheel using libyaml would be ideal, but I understand the complications so this might be a fair compromise that’s simple to implement.

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rdbcommented, Feb 21, 2019

I think it would still make sense because not every possible platform is covered even when manylinux wheels are available. So the generic wheels would act as a fallback.

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dirkroordacommented, Jul 14, 2021

I use yaml for config files mostly. Not performance critical at all. Maybe json is a better choice. And json is in Python’s standard library. Added bonus: good documentation. When I look at https://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAMLDocumentation occasionally, I’m bewildered.

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