Hi, On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Robert T. McGibbon <rmcgibbo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
However, it does suggest a possible alternative approach to naming these compatibility subsets: what if the name of this particular platform compatibility tag was something like "linux-sciabi1", rather than "manylinux1"?
That's an interesting idea, but I personally don't see the manylinux1 list as particularly "scientific". If anything, I'd call it "minimal".
Yes, I agree, I don't think 'linux-sciabi1" would differentiate this from other ways of building wheels. For example, I can't see why this wouldn't be a perfectly reasonable way to proceed for someone doing audio or video. The difference that "manylinux" was designed to capture is the idea of having a single set of wheels for many versions of Linux, rather than wheels specific to particular distributions or packaged versions of external libraries. Cheers, Matthew