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 # python-manylinux-demo
 Demo project for building Python wheels for Linux with Travis-CI
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/manylinux/python-manylinux-demo.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/manylinux/python-manylinux-demo)
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/manylinux/python-manylinux-demo.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/manylinux/python-manylinux-demo)
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+This is an example of how to use Travis-CI to build
+[PEP 513](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0513/)-compatible manylinux1
+wheels for Python. It supports both Python 2 and 3 on 32 and 64 bit linux
+architectures.
+
+Because these wheels need to be compiled on CentOS 5, this example uses Docker
+running on Travis-CI to compile (you don't need to use docker at all to _use_
+these wheels, it's just to compile them). The docker-based build environment
+images are:
+
+ - quay.io/pypa/manylinux1_x86_64
+ - quay.io/pypa/manylinux1_i686
+
+
+This sample project contains a very simple C compile extension module that links
+to an external library (ATLAS, a linear algebra library). The build is
+configured via the `setup.py` file.
+
+## Continuous integration setup with Travis + Docker
+
+The `.travis.yml` file in this repository sets up the build environment. The
+resulting build logs can be found at
+
+  https://travis-ci.org/manylinux/python-manylinux-demo
+
+The `.travis.yml` file instructs Travis to run the script
+`travis/build-wheels.sh` inside of the 32-bit and 64-bit manylinux1 docker
+build environments. This script builds the package using `pip`. But these
+wheels link against an external library. So to create self-contained libraries,
+the build script runs the wheels through
+[`auditwheel`](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/auditwheel).