Re: [Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux1

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal < chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > Given that we're starting now ( not a year or two ago) and it'll take > a while for it to really catch on, we should go CentOS 6 ( or > equivalent ) now? > > CentOS5 was released in 2007! That is a

Re: [Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux1

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: [...] >> ...well, or maybe just erroring out when it sees the future and asking >> the user to help would be good enough :-). This would impose the >> requirement going forward that we'd have to wait for a pip release >>

Re: [Distutils] PEP 513: A Platform Tag for Portable Linux Built Distributions Version

I agree that this is an important detail. I generally use machines that have many different Python interpreters installed (some distro-provided and others in my home directory), and can easily imagine wanting them to have different behavior w.r.t. manylinux1 wheels. Perhaps the option could be

Re: [Distutils] PEP 513: A Platform Tag for Portable Linux Built Distributions Version

Alternatively, perhaps this question could be delegated to the pip maintainers, for pip to store and maintain this configuration option itself, perhaps by using its cache (for example, Linux pip already stores some caches in ~/.cache/pip)? -Robert On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Robert T.

Re: [Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux1

(e.g. by bumping up >> the base ABI from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6). > > The problem with this is that python 2.7 is going to be supported and > widely used until well past the EOL of CentOS 5, and maybe even past > the EOL of CentOS 6 Given that we're starting now ( not a year or two ago) and it'll

Re: [Distutils] PEP 513: A Platform Tag for Portable Linux Built Distributions Version

Hi all, I think the PEP is pretty close to ready, but there's one remaining minor-but-substantive technical point that got mostly skipped in the previous discussion, and that I'm a little concerned about and wanted to highlight. This is the mechanism by which a distribution/user can explicitly

[Distutils] PEP 513: A Platform Tag for Portable Linux Built Distributions Version

Hi, This PEP is an updated version of the draft manylinux1 PEP posted to this list a couple days ago by Nathaniel and myself. The changes reflect the discussion on the list (thanks to everyone for all of the feedback), and generally go to the clarity and precision of the text. HTML version: