On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Robert T. McGibbon <rmcgi...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 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 pretty long time in computing. >> >> >> I understand the concern, but I think we should follow the lead of the >> other projects >> that have been doing portable linux binaries (holy build box, traveling >> ruby, portable-pypy, >> firefox, enthought, continuum) for some time, all based on CentOS 5. > > > That's the point -- they have been doing it for some time -- some time ago, > you really wouls want a version that old. > > The question is -- how many systems are there in teh wild now that are older > than CentOS6? I have no idea how to even find out. But if we're starting > somethign new, why start with what was appropriate 2+ years ago?
Well, the people who know what they're doing are still recommending CentOS 5 today, and we don't know what we're doing :-). Transitioning to a CentOS6-based manylinux2 shouldn't be a huge problem -- basically it just requires a pip release + a tweak to pypi to allow them, and then projects will probably want to provide manylinux1 and manylinux2 wheels alongside each other for 6 months or a year to give people a chance to upgrade their pip. -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
