[Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux1

[Chris Barker]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Well, the people who know what they're doing are still recommending
> CentOS 5 today, and we don't know what we're doing :-).
>

well, yes, there is that. I sure don't. But the threshold for changing is
higher than for starting fresh.

Transitioning to a CentOS6-based manylinux2 shouldn't be a huge
> problem --


would CentOS5-based wheels run just fine on a centOS-6 based system ?
Alongside CEntOS6-based wheels?

If so, then I guess it's no biggie -- the safe bet is better.

-CHB

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