hi Anthony, Yes, to back up what Micah is saying, Arrow is developed by a community of volunteers. Some of the volunteers are myself and my colleagues. My statements were only that my colleagues and I are unwilling to continue volunteering our time as we have been (see more at https://ursalabs.org/blog/2019-06-07-monthly-report/). Empirically, supporting wheels has prevented us from doing other important work in the project.
I'm a bit skeptical about the conda-press solution. Our users were upset when the Linux wheels went from ~15MB to ~50MB (which was partially caused by some shared libs getting duplicated because setuptools doesn't understand symlinks). Isn't a wheel produced by conda-press for a package with a ton of dependencies going to be pretty big? Thanks On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 3:44 PM Micah Kornfield <emkornfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Anthony, > I interpreted Wes's statement as Ursa Labs is out of the wheel packaging > business, so we need new volunteers involved with Arrow to pickup the slack > if we want to produce wheels. Conda press looks like it might be a good > solution to make packaging simpler. I'm curious: > > 1. Have you tried packaging an Arrow wheel with it? Does it work? > 2. I think I saw on another post, that it currently only supports Linux, > is this correct? > > Thanks, > Micah > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:33 PM Anthony Scopatz <scop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am writing to announce the first release of conda-press. > > https://github.com/regro/conda-press > > > > This is a project which let's you convert conda-packages to wheels. The > > plan is to integrate this into conda-forge & PyPI. Wes said today > > <https://twitter.com/wesmckinn/status/1159903659444068353> that Arrow is > > out of the wheel building game (totally reasonable), but wanted to present > > this as an option for folks who are interested in the packaging problem. > > > > Be Well > > Anthony > >
