[Numpy-discussion] manylinux upgrade for numpy wheels

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 10:38 PM Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
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> Pretty sure the 2010 and 2014 images both have much newer compilers than that.
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> There are still a lot of users on CentOS 6, so I'd still stick to 2010 for now on x86_64 at least. We could potentially start adding 2014 wheels for the other platforms where we currently don't ship wheels – gotta be better than nothing, right?
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> There probably still is some tail of end users whose pip is too old to know about 2010 wheels. I don't know how big that tail is. If we wanted to be really careful, we could ship both manylinux1 and manylinux2010 wheels for a bit – pip will automatically pick the latest one it recognizes – and see what the download numbers look like.

That all sounds right to me too.

Cheers,

Matthew

> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 13:18 Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> Thought now would be a good time to decide on upgrading manylinux for the 1.19 release so that we can make sure that everything works as expected. The choices are
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>> manylinux1 -- CentOS 5, currently used, gcc 4.2 (in practice 4.5), only supports i686, x86_64.
>> manylinux2010 -- CentOS 6, gcc 4.5, only supports i686, x86_64.
>> manylinux2014 -- CentOS 7, gcc 4.8, supports many more architectures.
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>> The main advantage of manylinux2014 is that it supports many new architectures, some of which we are already testing against. The main disadvantage is that it requires pip >= 19.x, which may not be much of a problem 4 months from now but will undoubtedly cause some installation problems. Unfortunately, the compiler remains archaic, but folks interested in performance should be using a performance oriented distribution or compiling for their native architecture.
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>> Chuck
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