[Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux2

[Matthew Brett]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Alex Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, I did a little experiment.  I explained this thread
> to my mother.  My mother is a wonderful woman, but she wouldn't know a byte
> from a bite.  I explained it as follows:
>
> "There is a tool that can make software run on a lot of different computers,
> but only if you build it for an ancient computer.  The tool is a little
> complicated - you have to learn how to get it and to use it with any
> success.  The people who make it are considering changing the way they name
> it.  The new naming scheme is the bare minimum year the computer running the
> code can be from.

I think the problem is that the whole discussion turns on whether we
should care about the fact that it's more complicated than the last
sentence would suggest.

Cheers,

Matthew