[Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux2

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:59 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
> I am a bit confused about the meaning of 'backfilling'. Does it mean that a
> particular manylinux will evolve in time so an early manylinux2010 wheel
> will differ from a later one?

I think it just means that, say, manylinux2008 could be released after
manylinux2010. So the version numbers wouldn't need to increase with
each release as it would if the numbering scheme were, say,
manylinux1, manylinux2, manylinux3, etc.

--Chris


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