On 13 February 2018 at 20:07, Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:59 AM, Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> wrote:
I am a bit confused about the meaning of 'backfilling'. Does it mean that a particular manylinux will evolve in time so an early manylinux2010 wheel will differ from a later one?
I think it just means that, say, manylinux2008 could be released after manylinux2010. So the version numbers wouldn't need to increase with each release as it would if the numbering scheme were, say, manylinux1, manylinux2, manylinux3, etc.
Yep, exactly this (the idea originally came from the fact we're going to need a manylinux variant with a baseline year around 2014 or 2015, or potentially even later, if we want to support aarch64 and/or ppc64le). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia