Please correct me if I'm wrong: so, that means - in theory - we can use CentOS 
CI for ppc64le machine and migrate away from Travis?

Kind Regards,
Bruno Rosa

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Coghlan [mailto:ncogh...@gmail.com] 
Sent: quarta-feira, 5 de abril de 2017 06:38
To: Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com>
Cc: Bruno Alexandre Rosa <bruno.r...@eldorado.org.br>; distutils sig 
<distutils-sig@python.org>
Subject: Re: [Distutils] CentOS5 is EOL, impact on manylinux1?

On 5 April 2017 at 15:59, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It may also be worth getting in touch with the CentOS CI folks about 
>> those aspects: https://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/CI/GettingStarted
>
> That page seems to say that for CentOS 7 they only support x86_64?

Sorry, I should have spelled out that chain of logic more clearly:

- ppc64le machines aren't that easy to come by, especially in public cloud 
services
- a build approach based on ppc64le VMs running on x86_64 hosts is likely to be 
easier to manage
- that means the desired CI service feature is "run arbitrary VMs", rather than 
"bare metal ppc64le systems"

You can kinda sorta do that to a limited degree in Travis, but our experience 
was that the CentOS Vagrant boxes didn't work by default, so we asked the 
CentOS CI maintainers what our options might be over there.

And as it turns out, not only are we able to get bare metal machines to run our 
VMs on (rather than messing about with nested virt support), but the CentOS 
boxes are pre-cached on the local network, so they should be pretty quick to 
download (we haven't actually got our CI up and running yet, so I won't be able 
to vouch for that personally until we do).

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncogh...@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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