> On Jan 21, 2016, at 3:14 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> On 21.01.2016 17:13, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 21, 2016 2:07 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 21.01.2016 10:31, Nick Coghlan wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 21 January 2016 at 19:03, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> By using the version based approach, we'd not run into this >>>>>> problem and gain a lot more. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I think it's better to start with a small core that we *know* works, >>>>> then expand later, rather than trying to make the first iteration too >>>>> wide. The "manylinux1" tag itself is versioned (hence the "1" at the >>>>> end), so "manylinux2" may simply have *more* libraries defined, rather >>>>> than newer ones. >>>> >>>> >>>> My argument is that the file based approach taken by the PEP >>>> is too limiting to actually make things work for a large >>>> set of Python packages. >>>> >>>> It will basically only work for packages that do not interface >>>> to other external libraries (except for the few cases listed in >>>> the PEP, e.g. X11, GL, which aren't always installed or >>>> available either). >>> >>> >>> The list of allowed libraries is exactly the same list of libraries as are >>> required by the Anaconda python distribution, so we *know* that it works >>> for about a hundred different python packages, including lots of tricky >>> ones (the whole scientific stack), and had been tested by tens or hundreds >>> of thousands of users. >> >> >> so this is x86_64-linux-gnu. Any other architectures? > > That's by far the dominant architecture for Linux workstations and > servers, so that's what we've focused on, yeah. I assume that > mainstream glibc-using distros on x86-32 and ARM are similar; unless > someone wants to go do the research somehow then I think the simplest > way forward is to proceed on the assumption that the same spec will > work, and then fix it up if/when it turns out to break.
Numbers! Here’s the # of downloads from PyPI in the last week or so that we can identify as a linux machine using pip and what the value of their platform.machine() is: https://caremad.io/s/SIxbkCB82C/ ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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