+1 for wheels, they are the standard binary distribution format so it makes sense. Also wheels support packaging python 2 and 3 on universal packages so they are future proof.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:26 PM, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@google.com> wrote: > +1, is it too late to try to release these as part of the 2.3 release > (to get familiar with the process, no code changes should be needed)? > > The wheels are advantageous when running locally (e.g. during testing > and development) where requiring containers will probably be overkill. > This will become especially relevant with the switch to use the > FnApiRunner. > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com> wrote: >> If we want all our code related to pipeline execution to be in a container, >> what value does building wheel distributions provide? >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Kenneth Knowles <k...@google.com> wrote: >>> >>> +1 >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Charles Chen <c...@google.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Currently, Apache Beam distributes Python packages through pip and PyPI. >>>> On PyPI, developers can release either source tarballs, and / or >>>> precompiled >>>> "wheel" distributions for each platform, which would be used if available >>>> for a particular platform. Currently, we only distribute the source >>>> tarballs, so any user who installs Beam using "pip install apache_beam" has >>>> to have a compiler and toolchain installed to take advantage of Cython >>>> optimizations in Beam (which require compiled C code). If such a compiler >>>> is not available, Beam is currently configured to install anyway, but will >>>> use slower Python codepaths instead of the more optimized ones (for >>>> example, >>>> for Coder encoding / decoding). >>>> >>>> I would like to propose that we start distributing binary wheel >>>> distributions for our releases, for common platforms like Windows / Mac / >>>> Linux. We could potentially use a method similar to this one >>>> (https://github.com/MacPython/cython-wheels) for building these wheel >>>> distributions. Thoughts? >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Charles >>> >>> >>
