On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 4:46 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
A few notes in this: > Maybe we need to help there. For example IIRC conda-forge will build conda > packages -- maybe we should offer a service like that for wheels? > Yes, conda-forge used a complex CI system to build binaries conda packages for a variety of Python versions. And it does have some support for development versions. ONce a "feedstock" is developed, it's remarkably painless to get all the binaries up and available. I imagine someone could borrow a bunch of that code to make a system to build wheels. In fact, ther is the MAcPYthon org: https://github.com/MacPython Which began as a place to share building scripts for Mac binaries, but has expanded to build wheels for multiple platforms for the scipy stack. I don't know how it works these days -- I am no longer involved since I discovered conda, but they seem to have some nice stuff there -- perhaps it could be leveraged for more projects. However: one of the challenges for building C extensions is that they often depend on external C libs -- and that is exactly the problem that conda was built to address. So in a sense, a conda-forge-like auto-build system is inherently easier for conda packages than binary wheels. Which doesn't mean it couldn't be done -- just that the challenge of third party libs would need to be addressed. In any case, someone would have to do the work, as usual. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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