Python wheels will require glibc >= 2.28

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The linux wheels will not support glibc < 2.28 starting from the planned 10.0 release. If you’re on these distros and use the vtk linux x86_64 wheels, this concerns you.

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (glibc 2.23)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 (glibc 2.27)
  • CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 (glibc 2.17)
  • Amazon Linux 2 (max glibc 2.26)
  • Debian 9 (glibc 2.24)

https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/merge_requests/13893 made the move from manylinux2014_x86_64 to manylinux_2_28_x86_64.

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You write: “linux wheels will not support glibc 2.28 starting from the planned 10.0 release”.

The PR you link to bumps the build images to manylinux_2_28_x86_64 which according to my understanding use Glibc 2.28 (the image is itself build from one of the RHEL 8 derivatives). Isn’t this correct? So the lowest supported version in the RHEL distro series goes from 7 to 8. That conflicts with the statement that “will not support glibc 2.28”.

Dropping support for RHEL/Alma/Rocky/Oracle 8 would be quite dramatic…

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Sorry had a typo. It’s fixed now