Re: Idea: perennial manylinux tag

FYI, I've started a discussion on the next manylinux spec here:
https://discuss.python.org/t/the-next-manylinux-specification/

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 4:21 AM Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 23:51, Matthias Klose <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 30.11.18 19:10, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > > And just to double-check, I'm assuming we don't want to just jump
> straight
> > > to distro tags and say if you're centos_6 compatible then you're fine?
> I
> > > assume that would potentially over-reach on compatibility in terms of
> what
> > > might be dynamically-linked against, but I thought I would ask because
> > > otherwise the glibc-tagged platform will be a unique hybrid of macOS +
> not
> > > an actual OS restriction.
> >
> > while a distro tag might be overkill, just encoding glibc might not be
> enough.
>
> Right, the kinds of issues you mention are why I think it's important
> to keep the "many" qualifier in the name (since there are additional
> constraints beyond just the glibc version), and why *something* still
> needs to define what those additional constraints actually are (even
> if that something becomes "the manylinux build environment project"
> rather than "distutils-sig via the PEP process").
>
> The only aspect this proposal would change is making it possible to
> infer the platform compatibility checking *heuristic* from the wheel
> name, rather than needing a lookup table. Installers that wanted a
> more robust heuristic could still add extra checks based on the actual
> linking constraints defined by the reference build environment.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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