2016-01-22 3:47 GMT+01:00 Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.bar...@noaa.gov>: > > Maybe the community will spring forth and do that -- I'm skeptical because I > tried to to that for years for OS-X and it was just too much to do. And the > infrastructure was there. > > Before pip and wheel there were mpkgs on OS-X, and repo's of toms for Linux > years before that -- but always the result of a couple people's heroic > efforts. > > Maybe the infrastructure has improved, and the community grown enough, that > this will all work. We'll see.
I think the infrastructure has improved. For instance I invested some time and effort to provide a template configuration to build C/C++ compiled extensions for windows wheels on top of the free AppVeyor.com CI platform [1]. Since then this build configuration has been integrated in the python packaging documentation [2] and I had the opportunity to present that work at PyCon [3] (and PyCon FR) last year. Now the community of project maintainers has picked it up. I can count more than 300 projects using this build setup on github. I have very little work to do to help them maintain that infra-strucuture nowadays. Even the configuration upgrade to make it work with MSVC 2015 / Python 3.5 was contributed to my repo before I could find the time to investigate the issue my-self. My point is that once we have clearly defined best-practices for packaging and convenient tools to build the packages automatically and test that they work as expected (e.g. free hosted CI that support running an old centos-based docker container), I am rather confident that the community will do the work. It's mostly a matter of providing good tools and education resources (documentation and example configuration templates). [1] https://github.com/ogrisel/python-appveyor-demo/ [2] https://www.appveyor.com/docs/packaging-artifacts [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-p6lJJObLU -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
