On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 11:01 AM Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org>
wrote:

> On 04/03/2022 21.41, Brett Cannon wrote:
> >     Therefore I propose that we target the oldest manylinux standard
> >     accepted by PyPI, for which the operating system has not reached its
> >     EOL. At the moment this is manylinux2014, aka CentOS 2024 with EOL
> June
> >     2024. We could also state that we aim for compatibility with oldest
> >     Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS with standard, free security updates.
> >     As of
> >     today Debian 10 Buster Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic are the oldest versions
> with
> >     regular updates.
> >
> >
> > So does that mean you want to list the Linux distros explicitly? Or you
> > want to explicitly list the glibc version?
>
> I want to explicitly mention glibc and Linux distro for manylinux binary
> wheels standards that are supported by PyPI. For the rest we should be a
> bit more hand-wavy. Maybe we can point to our list of stable buildbots?
>

How about we list Linux support as based on the libc implementation and
version and point as various stable buildbots that cover that libc?


>
> >
> >     We should say something about compilers. I wouldn't list compiler
> >     versions, though. Compiler features like C99 support should be
> >     sufficient.
> >
> >
> > Then what more would you want than what's listed in PEP 7 already?
>
> Nothing in particular other than a link to the PEP, so people can
> discover the requirement more easily.
>

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