[Wheel-builders] Wheel files for PPC64le

[Nick Coghlan]

On 21 February 2017 at 06:08, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> Personally I try to avoid plans that require predicting the future years
> in advance, but... It's kind of up to you? The name is not the most
> important thing here :-).
>
> A possible problem though is that I'm pretty sure centos doesn't support
> ppc.
>

It does, as of the more recent 7.x releases. Unfortunately, there's no
ppc64le support in ci.centos.org at this point, though:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2017-January/015617.html

The ppc64le Docker base image is also currently still third party rather
than generated as one of the default artifacts:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2017-February/015661.html

So until cloud-based ppc64le environments become more common as a target
for running ppc64le containers, it may be necessary to pursue a
Vagrant-based ppc64le build environment that uses a full machine image
rather than a Docker image.

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.

Cheers,
Nick.

-- 
Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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