(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 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 pretty long time in computing. Just a thought, we'll be locked into it for a while, yes? -CHB > (in 2020). On Linux, unlike Windows, the whole > system ABI underneath Python evolves in a backwards-compatible way, so > there's no anchor like the MSVC CRT that's tying us to old ABIs. > > (And on OS X, the OS X version number is encoded as part of the > platform tag, similar to the proposal for manylinux1/2/...) > > -n > > -- > Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
