Re: [DISCUSS] Dropping support for CentOS 5 / RHEL5 in Python packages

2018-09-06 Thread Uwe L. Korn
Hello Wes, I'm ok with option 2 when we use the yet unfinished manylinux2010 image as the base. This way, we will still be able to produce wheels that in the near future are actually based an a architecture tag supported by a PEP. Also as I have some packaging nightmare, I would feel much bette

Re: [DISCUSS] Dropping support for CentOS 5 / RHEL5 in Python packages

2018-09-04 Thread Ted Dunning
Just as a point of reference, I don't think that get any pushback at MapR for not supporting RHEL 5 and that has been our policy for a few years now. That experience should be pretty similar for Arrow, except that I would expect that new adoptions might be even more canted towards current versions

[DISCUSS] Dropping support for CentOS 5 / RHEL5 in Python packages

2018-09-04 Thread Wes McKinney
hi folks, Surfacing a JIRA discussion ([4]) to the mailing list for discussion. The manylinux1 ABI was developed to provide a mechanism for portable Python packages with pre-compiled binary extensions supporting C and C++, including C++11, on a wide variety of Linux distributions without need for