[Distutils] manylinux1 testing

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
> On 05/06/2017 10:34, Matthew Brett wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
> ...........
>>
>>
>> You could do that, they will test whether the wheels run a minimal
>> case in terms of versions and dependencies.  You may hit
>> inconveniences building packages, because the toolchains are rather
>> old.
>>
> I assumed that everything I need would be in the wheels I have built. The
> manylinux docker needs to be able to build pythons anyhow so I guess the
> tools are good enough for that.

Sure - the building I was think of was for any dependencies where you
didn't have a built wheel.

You'll likely be able to get by with the tools on the Manylinux docker
image, but you might have to pay attention to stuff like which version
of cmake you have and so on.

Cheers,

Matthew