[Wheel-builders] Wheel files for PPC64le

[Nick Coghlan]

(Sorry for the late follow-up - this list used to be filed under a
mail subfolder that I didn't check very often, and I've only just now
moved it to one that I look at more regularly)

On 3 March 2017 at 04:05, Leonardo Bianconi
<leonardo.bianconi at eldorado.org.br> wrote:
> From: Nick Coghlan [mailto:ncoghlan at gmail.com]
>> 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?

The CentOS 7 ABI baseline isn't from 2016 - it's from 2014, since the
package versions are fixed by the corresponding RHEL release:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life_Cycle_Dates

Technically, the ABI compatibility baseline dates are even earlier
than that, since they're already set at least by the public RHEL X
beta, which is several months before the final release (Dec 2013 in
the case of the RHEL 7 beta)

While the decision to use `manylinux3` makes the `linux2014` vs
`linux2016` discussion moot, that distinction is still important in
terms of whether or not Ubuntu 14.04 is likely meet the manylinux3 ABI
detection checks (I actually expect it will, although only testing
will tell us for sure).

Cheers,
Nick.

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