[Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux1

[Chris Barker]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > So without a plan to provide all that stuff -- I"m not sure of the
> utility
> > of this -- how are you gong to get PIL/Pillow to work? statically link up
> > the ying-yang? Not sure the linux world will take to that.
>
> That's exactly how the current OSX Pillow wheels work, and they've
> been working fine for a while now.  There just aren't that many
> libraries to worry about for the vast majority of packages.
>

well, that was really intended to be only an example. And OS-X provides
more basic libs than manylinux anyway (zlib, freetype, either png or jpeg,
can't remember which).

The library list got long enough to drive me crazy -- I guess you've got
more patience than I have. Tried to build any OSGEO stuff lately?

-CHB



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