[Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux1

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

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> On Jan 27, 2016, at 12:00 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
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> So now, one could argue that it is not the community's job to tackle old
> OS, and they would be right, but:
>
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> We can make a data driven decision here.
>

I like data-driven decision as well :)
Can you give an approximate of total download to convert this in % ?

David

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> Here is the top 100 *nix OSs that are downloading files from PyPI using a
> version of pip >= 6.0. Any version of pip older than that and we don’t have
> insight into what they are (we can get kernel version if they’re using pip
> >= 1.4) and any installer other than that we don’t get any insight into
> either.
>
> One problem of course is deciding how representative only people who are
> using pip >= 6.0 is, though since we can’t get manylinux support into
> already released versions of pip it may be pretty representative of people
> who will use this feature (unless this feature causes people to upgrade
> their pip when they wouldn’t otherwise).
>
> Anyways, here’s the data:
> https://gist.github.com/dstufft/e1b1fbebb3482362198f
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> It doesn’t matter to me if we use CentOS5 or CentOS6 as our base, but
> having some information to inform our choices is never a bad thing!
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