+1 On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Charles Chen <c...@google.com> wrote:
> Currently, Apache Beam distributes Python packages through pip and PyPI. > On PyPI, developers can release either source tarballs, and / or > precompiled "wheel" distributions for each platform, which would be used if > available for a particular platform. Currently, we only distribute the > source tarballs, so any user who installs Beam using "pip install > apache_beam" has to have a compiler and toolchain installed to take > advantage of Cython optimizations in Beam (which require compiled C code). > If such a compiler is not available, Beam is currently configured to > install anyway, but will use slower Python codepaths instead of the more > optimized ones (for example, for Coder encoding / decoding). > > I would like to propose that we start distributing binary wheel > distributions for our releases, for common platforms like Windows / Mac / > Linux. We could potentially use a method similar to this one ( > https://github.com/MacPython/cython-wheels) for building these wheel > distributions. Thoughts? > > Best, > Charles >
