[Distutils] Re: Idea: perennial manylinux tag

2018-12-02 Thread Elvis Stansvik
Den lör 1 dec. 2018 kl 09:41 skrev Nathaniel Smith : > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 7:13 AM Thomas Kluyver wrote: > > Do we lose the ability for a system to explicitly declare that it is or > > isn't compatible with a given manylinux variant (via the _manylinux? > > Good question. > > Straw man: if

[Distutils] Re: Idea: perennial manylinux tag

2018-12-02 Thread Robert T. McGibbon
Hi, As the original author of auditwheel and co-author of PEP 513, I figure I should probably chime in. I suspect that *I* am one of the major reasons that the manylinux1 -> manylinux2010 transition has been unreasonably drawn out, rather than any particular design flaw in the versioning scheme (

[Distutils] Re: Idea: perennial manylinux tag

2018-12-02 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 6:10 PM Robert T. McGibbon wrote: > I suspect that *I* am one of the major reasons that the manylinux1 -> > manylinux2010 transition has been unreasonably drawn out, rather than any > particular design flaw in the versioning scheme (manylinux_{cardinal number} > vs. manyl