Hi Adriano, I'm the maintainer of Rasterio and have been distributing wheels that include GDAL on PyPI for a few years. I do not recommend the experience of doing this. I'm writing a blog post about it, but it's not done yet. The TL;DR is: it's hard, there's endless toil, and you spend time interacting with the worst open source people. The ones who only want free compiled ready-to-run software (and your labor for free), and who don't contribute to your project in any positive way.
Publishing a GDAL-dependent package to conda-forge is much less work because the GDAL package already exists and has maintainers. if you decide you really want to publish software that uses GDAL on PyPI in spite of my warning, do read https://pypackaging-native.github.io/ and especially these sections: * https://pypackaging-native.github.io/key-issues/native-dependencies/ * https://pypackaging-native.github.io/key-issues/native-dependencies/geospatial_stack/ * https://pypackaging-native.github.io/meta-topics/user_expectations_wheels/ I wish Ralf Gommers had written this before I started! If you have questions about those sections, you can discuss them on GitHub with Ralf, or we could discuss GDAL-specific issues here. One problem specific to GDAL is that of format drivers, and which ones to include. Yours, On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM Adriano Matos via gdal-dev < gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been writing a Python package that uses GDAL as a dependency. I plan > to make this package available to install via Anaconda at least. Having a > pip package would be nice, but I keep getting GDAL errors whenever I try to > compile a pip package. I think it has something to do with the > system-dependent compilers that GDAL uses. I was able to successfully > create an Anaconda package, but as of now it is only available to install > via Windows. I wanted to make this package system-agnostic, but it > defaulted to my system's OS of Windows when I created the package due to > the use of GDAL as a dependency. I was considering creating an Anaconda > package in a Linux environment (maybe using a virtual machine) and then a > Mac environment so that I can have this package available on all operating > systems. I was curious to see if anyone knows more about this topic. Am I > approaching this problem the right way? Thank you! > -- Sean Gillies
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