[Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux1

[Donald Stufft]

> On Jan 27, 2016, at 12:29 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io <mailto:donald at stufft.io>> wrote:
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>> On Jan 27, 2016, at 12:00 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com <mailto: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.
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> I like data-driven decision as well :)
> Can you give an approximate of total download to convert this in % ?
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Anyways, here’s the data: https://gist.github.com/dstufft/e1b1fbebb3482362198f <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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> Donald Stufft
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Across all of PyPI? Total Downloads are 119890375 for roughly the same time period (data is continuously streaming in), for only Linux on pip >= 6.0 it’s 40210457.

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