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21 changes: 18 additions & 3 deletions source/specifications/platform-compatibility-tags.rst
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Expand Up @@ -8,6 +8,21 @@ Platform compatibility tags
The platform compatibility tagging model used for ``wheel`` distribution is
defined in :pep:`425`.

The scheme defined in that PEP is insufficient for public distribution
of Linux wheel files (and \*nix wheel files in general), so :pep:`513` was
created to define the ``manylinux1`` tag.
.. _manylinux:

Manylinux tags
==============

The scheme defined in :pep:`425` is insufficient for public distribution
of Linux wheel files (and \*nix wheel files in general), so the *manylinux*
platform tags were defined, to allow providing wheels for many common Linux
distributions. See :pep:`513` for more about how this works.

* ``manylinux1`` is defined in :pep:`513`, for x86_64 and i686 architectures.
* ``manylinux2010`` is defined in :pep:`571`, for x86_64 and i686 architectures.
It is based on a platform from 2010, whereas ``manylinux1`` is based on a
platform from 2007. This means that ``manylinux2010`` packages are easier to
create, but not compatible with some older systems where ``manylinux1``
packages would work.

``manylinux2010`` is not yet widely recognised by install tools.