Hi All,
Thought now would be a good time to decide on upgrading manylinux for the
1.19 release so that we can make sure that everything works as expected.
The choices are
manylinux1 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0513/> -- CentOS 5,
currently used, gcc 4.2 (in practice 4.5), only supports i686, x86_64.
manylinux2010 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0571/> -- CentOS 6, gcc
4.5, only supports i686, x86_64.
manylinux2014 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0599/> -- CentOS 7,
gcc 4.8, supports many more architectures.
The main advantage of manylinux2014 is that it supports many new
architectures, some of which we are already testing against. The main
disadvantage is that it requires pip >= 19.x, which may not be much of a
problem 4 months from now but will undoubtedly cause some installation
problems. Unfortunately, the compiler remains archaic, but folks interested
in performance should be using a performance oriented distribution or
compiling for their native architecture.
Chuck
Hi all,
There will be a NumPy Community meeting Wednesday February 5 at 11 am
Pacific Time. Everyone is invited to join in and edit the work-in-
progress meeting topics and notes:
https://hackmd.io/76o-IxCjQX2mOXO_wwkcpg?both
Best wishes
Sebastian
