On September 6, 2015 12:33:29 PM CDT, "Sven R. Kunze" <srku...@mail.de> wrote: >Hi folks, > >currently, I came across http://pythonwheels.com/ during researching >how >to make a proper Python distribution for PyPI. I thought it would be >great idea to tell other maintainers to upload their content as wheels >so I approached a couple of them. Some of them already provided wheels. > >Happy being able to have built my own distribution, I discussed the >issue at hand with some people and I would like to share my findings >and >propose some ideas: > >1) documentation is weirdly split up/distributed and references old >material >2) once up and running (setup.cfg, setup.py etc. etc.) it works but >everybody needs to do it on their own >3) more than one way to do (upload, wheel, source/binary etc.) it >(sigh) >4) making contact to propose wheels on github or per email is easy >otherwise almost impossible or very tedious >5) reactions went evenly split from "none", "yes", "when ready" to >"nope" > >None: well, okay >yes: that's good >when ready: well, okay >nope: what a pity for wheels; example: >https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/issues/122 > >I personally find the situation not satisfying. Someone proposes the >following solution in form of a question: > >Why do developers need to build their distribution themselves? > >I had not real answer to him, but pondering a while over it, I found it > >really insightful. Viewing this from a different angle, packaging your >own distribution is actually a waste of time. It is a tedious, >error-prone task involving no creativity whatsoever. Developers on the >other hand are actually people with very little time and a lot of >creativity at hand which should spend better. The logical conclusion >would be that PyPI should build wheels for the developers for every >python/platform combination necessary. >
You can already do this with CI services. I wrote a post about doing that with AppVeyor: http://kirbyfan64.github.io/posts/using-appveyor-to-distribute-python-wheels.html but the idea behind it should apply easily to Travis and others. In reality, you're probably using a CI service to run your tests anyway, so it might as well build your wheels, too! > >With this post, I would like raise awareness of the people in charge of > >the Python infrastructure. > > >Best, >Sven >_______________________________________________ >Python-ideas mailing list >python-id...@python.org >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas >Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
