On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jan 27, 2016, at 12:00 PM, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: > > So now, one could argue that it is not the community's job to tackle old > OS, and they would be right, but: > > > We can make a data driven decision here. > I like data-driven decision as well :) Can you give an approximate of total download to convert this in % ? David > > Here is the top 100 *nix OSs that are downloading files from PyPI using a > version of pip >= 6.0. Any version of pip older than that and we don’t have > insight into what they are (we can get kernel version if they’re using pip > >= 1.4) and any installer other than that we don’t get any insight into > either. > > One problem of course is deciding how representative only people who are > using pip >= 6.0 is, though since we can’t get manylinux support into > already released versions of pip it may be pretty representative of people > who will use this feature (unless this feature causes people to upgrade > their pip when they wouldn’t otherwise). > > Anyways, here’s the data: > https://gist.github.com/dstufft/e1b1fbebb3482362198f > > It doesn’t matter to me if we use CentOS5 or CentOS6 as our base, but > having some information to inform our choices is never a bad thing! > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > >
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