[Wheel-builders] Wheel files for PPC64le

[Leonardo Bianconi]

> -----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.

> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
> 
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