[Wheel-builders] Building Kivy for manylinux1

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi Dominik,

I think the manylinx2010 image (that will be based on Centos6) should help:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0571/
https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/pull/152


Also to help create derive image, you could base yours on
dockcross/manylinux-x64 (that itself derive from the manylinux one but
include convenience tooling to build project)
and read how you can extend it
<https://github.com/dockcross/dockcross#how-to-extend-dockcross-images>.

Hth
Jc





On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 7:32 AM, Dominik Lang via Wheel-builders <
wheel-builders at python.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I've opened an issue on https://github.com/pypa/wheel-builders, but that
> got immediately closed,
> so I guess that was the wrong place to ask/contribute, haha.
>
>
> Here's my situation: I'm not *that* experienced in the "build stuff with
> gcc" department,
> i.e. I've done it before but I don't have the in-depth knowledge.
>
> What I'm trying to do is to create a Kivy build that "just works" on as
> many systems as possible.
>
> Motivation: As a new guy, if the first thing you're greeted with upon
> installation of a framework is
> some obscure Cython error, then you're probably not going to bother.
>
> (Python + GUI really is a sore spot in the overall ecosystem.)
>
>
> I've been playing around with different systems and options for a while
> now (including manylinux1), though,
> and have started to learn how to properly build RPMs.
>
>
>
> My main question at this point is:  should I even bother with manylinux1?
>
>
>
> I get that the reason for going back as far as possible is to support as
> many systems as possible.
>
> But RedHat 5 is on extended support only now, that means CentOS 5 also
> won't ever receive any fixes anymore,
> if I understand that right.  That is, if I were to use the provided docker
> image, that'd be a potential security issue in itself.
>
> Also, trying to "go back in time" with newer software releases is a major
> effort here (relying on SDL2 and all that involves).
>
>
> So basically, I think I have 3 options:
>
> - Not even trying to be compatible with manylinux1.
>
> - Backport everything from the latest minor release of CentOS 6 (CentOS
> only supports the latest minor release).
>
> - Try to make it work on CentOS 6, first.  Then try and see if I can find
> and fix the incompatibilities introduced by that.
>
>   But that is over my head, still.
>
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dominik
>
>
>
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