Python ports: should we use wheel files?

[Joshua Root]

On 2018-4-1 17:40 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On Mar 31, 2018, at 05:11, Enrico Maria Crisostomo wrote:
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>> Now, the problem.  macOS is a platform where TensorFlow is _built_ and _tested_ by upstream.  Some of its dependencies (e.g.: grpcio) are packaged and distributed as wheel files.  Hence, what upstream supports is the state of a system after the dependencies are installed from wheel files.
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> For what macOS versions and architectures are they compiled? I assume the list is smaller than what MacPorts currently supports.

TensorFlow is x86_64 only.

- Josh