FYI, I've started a discussion on the next manylinux spec here: https://discuss.python.org/t/the-next-manylinux-specification/
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 4:21 AM Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 23:51, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On 30.11.18 19:10, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > And just to double-check, I'm assuming we don't want to just jump > straight > > > to distro tags and say if you're centos_6 compatible then you're fine? > I > > > assume that would potentially over-reach on compatibility in terms of > what > > > might be dynamically-linked against, but I thought I would ask because > > > otherwise the glibc-tagged platform will be a unique hybrid of macOS + > not > > > an actual OS restriction. > > > > while a distro tag might be overkill, just encoding glibc might not be > enough. > > Right, the kinds of issues you mention are why I think it's important > to keep the "many" qualifier in the name (since there are additional > constraints beyond just the glibc version), and why *something* still > needs to define what those additional constraints actually are (even > if that something becomes "the manylinux build environment project" > rather than "distutils-sig via the PEP process"). > > The only aspect this proposal would change is making it possible to > infer the platform compatibility checking *heuristic* from the wheel > name, rather than needing a lookup table. Installers that wanted a > more robust heuristic could still add extra checks based on the actual > linking constraints defined by the reference build environment. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > -- > Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/N4W27YGBMXWWMWVDGYQXZWXBIQ7ZZENE/ >
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