[Wheel-builders] Wheel files for PPC64le

[Nathaniel Smith]

Honestly I think at this point you should roll up your sleeves and
write a proposal. You have to start making decisions at some point,
and you know your problems better than we do :-).

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Leonardo Bianconi
<leonardo.bianconi at eldorado.org.br> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Leonardo Bianconi
>> Sent: quinta-feira, 2 de março de 2017 15:06
>> To: 'Nick Coghlan' <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com>; wheel-builders at python.org
>> Subject: RE: [Wheel-builders] Wheel files for PPC64le
>>
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Nick Coghlan [mailto:ncoghlan at gmail.com]
>> > Sent: quinta-feira, 2 de março de 2017 08:37
>> > To: Leonardo Bianconi <leonardo.bianconi at eldorado.org.br>
>> > Cc: Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com>; wheel-builders at python.org
>> > Subject: Re: [Wheel-builders] Wheel files for PPC64le
>> >
>> > On 2 March 2017 at 05:28, Leonardo Bianconi
>> > <leonardo.bianconi at eldorado.org.br> wrote:
>> > > Either way, I think the approach of defining an interim ppc64le specific target
>> > ABI,
>> > > with a aim of converging back to the common manylinux baseline around the
>> > > time of manylinux3 (aniticipated to be 2020'ish when RHEL 6 & CentOS 6
>> > support
>> > > ends) is likely to be the best available option.
>> >
>> > So, I though two possibilities for this, put the version "0" (manylinux_0) or the
>> > characters "beta" (manylinux_beta) for the tag. Is there any technical objection
>> > for
>> > it? Any other suggestion?
>> >
>> > Given that the baseline images are Ubuntu 14.04 and CentOS 7, how about
>> calling
>> > it linux2014?
>>
>> Actually I suggested the CentOS 7 as base just to make both architectures
>> depending
>> of the same system, leaving the ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04 without support, as them
>> are
>> older than CentOS 7, and the backward compatibility may not work.
>>
>> So, as CentOS 7 is from 2016, the suggestions would be linux2016, right?
>>
>> Do you see any issue basing it on CentOS7 and leaving older distros, for example
>> Ubuntu 14.04, without support?
>> Another thinking is the possibility, if the best way is make it support since Ubuntu
>> 14.04, of make Ubuntu (currently ubuntu 14.04) be the base and change to
>> CentOS when both architecture have the same minimum supported version.
>
> Any suggestion on it?
>
>>
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Nick.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia



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