[Distutils] PyPI support for linux_ppc64le

[Thomas Kluyver]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018, at 2:35 PM, Alex Grönholm wrote:
> The manylinux1 platform only supports x86-64 and x86-32 (i686)
> architectures. A quote from PEP 513:> Because CentOS 5 is only available for x86_64 and i686 architectures,
> these are the only architectures currently supported by the
> manylinux1 policy.> If support is to be extended to other architectures, it requires a new
> standard (which has recently been discussed on this ML).
There was discussion nearly a year ago about adding a manylinux3
variant, based on CentOS 7, with ppc64le support:https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-March/030315.html

More recently, there was discussion of a manylinux variant based on
CentOS 6 to provide a newer base without expanding the supported
architectures:https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2018-January/031943.html
The latter discussion largely got stuck on whether we should switch from
numbered variants (manylinux2) to using dates in the name
(manylinux2014). If we can reach an agreement on that point, I think we
can probably move towards defining more manylinux variants.
Thomas
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