Hi, On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 10:38 PM Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Pretty sure the 2010 and 2014 images both have much newer compilers than that. > > There are still a lot of users on CentOS 6, so I'd still stick to 2010 for > now on x86_64 at least. We could potentially start adding 2014 wheels for the > other platforms where we currently don't ship wheels – gotta be better than > nothing, right? > > There probably still is some tail of end users whose pip is too old to know > about 2010 wheels. I don't know how big that tail is. If we wanted to be > really careful, we could ship both manylinux1 and manylinux2010 wheels for a > bit – pip will automatically pick the latest one it recognizes – and see what > the download numbers look like.
That all sounds right to me too. Cheers, Matthew > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 13:18 Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Thought now would be a good time to decide on upgrading manylinux for the >> 1.19 release so that we can make sure that everything works as expected. The >> choices are >> >> manylinux1 -- CentOS 5, currently used, gcc 4.2 (in practice 4.5), only >> supports i686, x86_64. >> manylinux2010 -- CentOS 6, gcc 4.5, only supports i686, x86_64. >> manylinux2014 -- CentOS 7, gcc 4.8, supports many more architectures. >> >> The main advantage of manylinux2014 is that it supports many new >> architectures, some of which we are already testing against. The main >> disadvantage is that it requires pip >= 19.x, which may not be much of a >> problem 4 months from now but will undoubtedly cause some installation >> problems. Unfortunately, the compiler remains archaic, but folks interested >> in performance should be using a performance oriented distribution or >> compiling for their native architecture. >> >> Chuck >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
