+1 to wheels. The main effort for this would be updating the release guide, and adding support for other platforms in Jenkins for building and testing wheels. In light of this, maybe we can prioritize having test infrastructure for other platforms.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Ismaël Mejía <ieme...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 for wheels, they are the standard binary distribution format so it > makes sense. Also wheels support packaging python 2 and 3 on universal > packages so they are future proof. > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:26 PM, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@google.com> > wrote: > > +1, is it too late to try to release these as part of the 2.3 release > > (to get familiar with the process, no code changes should be needed)? > It would be nice to have this for the current release. How can we build and test these binaries? I think it will be prudent to waIt until we have infrastructure. > > > > The wheels are advantageous when running locally (e.g. during testing > > and development) where requiring containers will probably be overkill. > > This will become especially relevant with the switch to use the > > FnApiRunner. > > > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com> wrote: > >> If we want all our code related to pipeline execution to be in a > container, > >> what value does building wheel distributions provide? > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Kenneth Knowles <k...@google.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> +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 > >>> > >>> > >> >
