On 22 January 2016 at 07:04, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That's an interesting idea, but I personally don't see the manylinux1 list >> as particularly >> "scientific". If anything, I'd call it "minimal". > > Yes, I agree, I don't think 'linux-sciabi1" would differentiate this > from other ways of building wheels. For example, I can't see why this > wouldn't be a perfectly reasonable way to proceed for someone doing > audio or video. The difference that "manylinux" was designed to > capture is the idea of having a single set of wheels for many versions > of Linux, rather than wheels specific to particular distributions or > packaged versions of external libraries.
Experience with Christoph Gohlke's binary distributions on Windows suggests that a significant majority of non-scientific uses are perfectly well served by the sort of package list that scientific users would need. And I suspect that not all Enthought/Anaconda users are scientists, either. So I'd rather that the tag was based on capability rather than community / intended use. On that basis, "linux-minimal1" sounds fine to me. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
