[Wheel-builders] Wheel files for PPC64le

[Leonardo Bianconi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Coghlan [mailto:ncoghlan at gmail.com]
> Sent: segunda-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2017 09:09
> To: Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com>
> Cc: Leonardo Bianconi <leonardo.bianconi at eldorado.org.br>; wheel-
> builders at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Wheel-builders] Wheel files for PPC64le
> 
> 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.

Thanks, I haven't noticed there was no official support on CentOS, the full machine
image is probably the way.

> 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?

Thanks!


> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
> 
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