[Distutils] draft PEP: manylinux1

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, the people who know what they're doing are still recommending
>> CentOS 5 today, and we don't know what we're doing :-).
>>
>
> well, yes, there is that. I sure don't. But the threshold for changing is
> higher than for starting fresh.
>
> Transitioning to a CentOS6-based manylinux2 shouldn't be a huge
>> problem --
>
>
> would CentOS5-based wheels run just fine on a centOS-6 based system ?
> Alongside CEntOS6-based wheels?
>
> If so, then I guess it's no biggie -- the safe bet is better.
>

I will make sure to let the manylinux effort know when we decide to move to
Centos6 as the base system.

David


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