[yt-dev] Binary wheel distribution?

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Nathan,

I think this is a great idea.  I also now have windows vm resources
here, if that helps.  (cc JZH)

-Matt

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently the python packaging ecosystem has come up with a new way of
> sharing binary builds of python packages to end users.  This takes the form
> of so-called "binary wheels" (everything in python packaging is a joke about
> cheese...).  The main advantage of wheels is that users installing via pip
> on Windows and OSX will no longer need compilers to build yt and
> installation will also proceed significantly faster. As far as I can tell,
> wheels are discouraged on Linux since it's assumed that users will use their
> OS package manager to install binary builds. You may even be using wheels
> right now - matplotlib, numpy, and many other projects with c extensions are
> now distributing wheels on OS X and windows. More information about wheels
> is available here:
>
> http://wheel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
> https://python-packaging-user-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>
> The main downside of wheels is that it's another piece of tooling to
> maintain.
>
> I just tested and with a newish version of setuptools and the "wheel"
> package installed, our setup script can produce wheels!  You just need to do
> "python setup.py bdist_wheel".
>
> I'm curious whether people would be agreeable in principle to uploading
> wheels to PyPI as a (semi-)automated part of our release process.  Please
> let me know what you think.
>
> -Nathan
>
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