nealrichardson commented on PR #41395: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/41395#issuecomment-2082746894
> As mentioned in #41403 I think we can remove the centos based jobs or migrate to something newer for the libarrow binaries (9? or rocky/alma not sure what our stand/choice on that mess is?) But it's probably best to do it in a follow up. IIRC we use centos 7 with dts specifically for those jobs (ossl < 3) for use on older systems but if we drop support for centos 7&8 ... cc @nealrichardson (again it seems that we need a support policy ^^) We build those binaries on centos 7 for the same reason that manylinux2014 did: to build against as old of a glibc as we could to ensure the broadest compatibility. I don't know the implication of upgrading to almalinux 8, but it looks like we still build manylinux2014 wheels? In which case we should keep building R for the same. Maybe we should switch the R binary builds to use the manylinux images, like we do when building wheels? Then we can still build on the platform but not have to maintain our own centos 7 tooling. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
