[Numpy-discussion] Dropping manylinux1 wheels for NumPy 1.20.

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 5:01 PM Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Updated for Numpy wheels only - BigQuery [1], Notebook [2].
>
> 41% of 32-bit wheels need manylinux1, 30% of 64-bit wheels.
>

Thanks for doing the analysis, very useful data.


> Ralf - agreed we shouldn't wait too long for old pip - but maybe we
> need to think of some way of reminding people with old pip to upgrade?
>

I don't think there's much we can do unfortunately. That's up to Pip
itself, and it may have good reasons not to nag people to upgrade.

Cheers,
Ralf


> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
> [1] https://gist.github.com/dc410698ca9e422aec08e4554eac6678
> [2] https://gist.github.com/77879cb58b28b3d05c3c14b8a45687e8
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:37 PM Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:51 PM Charles R Harris
> > <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > The 32 bit manylinux1 wheels are proving problematic, see
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/17174. One proposed solution is to
> only release manylinux2010 linux wheels for the NumPy 1.20 release.
> Thoughts?
> >
> > I think it may still be too early to discontinue manylinux1, sadly.
> >
> > Systems requiring manylinux1 are those with:
> >
> > pip < 19.0 (Jan 2019) [1]
> > Linux distribution older than around 2010 (glibc < 2.12) [2]
> >
> > I did a PyPI BigQuery [3] just now, editing to give results for 32,
> > and 64 bit (by changing the manylinux wheel name matching regexp).
> >
> > Then I processed a bit with Pandas [4].
> >
> > It looks like about 34% of PyPI manylinux*_i686 downloads are for
> > systems that actually need manylinux1, and about 17% of
> > manylinux*_x86_64.  See the table in [4] for a listing of the top 10
> > entries.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/pypa/manylinux
> > [2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0571/
> > [3] https://gist.github.com/e3901b344b8d81f5633908347b1b333e
> > [4] https://gist.github.com/0f624ddbc34bc3db8bcae23e3eeb7b54
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