Re: Opinions on requiring younger glibc in manylinux1 wheel?

Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 08:25 Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> According to recent messages, it seems manylinux2010 won't be ready soon.
> However, the baseline software in manylinux1 is becoming very old. As an
> example, a popular C++ library (Abseil - https://abseil.io/) requires a
> more recent glibc (see
> https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/commit/add89fd0e4bfd7d874bb55b67f4e13bf8beca762#diff-9f9c7fefa83b53e16cd568e31f1bfcb9R81
> ).
>
> What do you think of publishing manylinux1 wheels that would require a
> more recent glibc? This is being discussed currently for the pyarrow
> package.
>

It's naughty, you shouldn't do it, and the energy you put into making
pseudo-manylinux1 wheels could probably be better put into making finishing
up the manylinux2010 work – there's not that much to do.

That said, if you do do it, then probably it'll work fine and no one will
notice.

-n

>

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