We've found ourselves needing to install this package in a minimal container environment with no access to build tools like Cython or gcc, where the usual pip install -e ... isn't an option. So I've built pre-compiled binary wheels.
I figured others might have a similar use case, so if you're interested in building wheels too, this PR has the CI setup I used to build the wheels.
The result is using PyPa's cibuildwheel package and their integration with Github Actions (every open source repo/user has 2000 free Actions minutes per month).
Currently it's configured to build Python 3.7 through to 3.10, on Win32/64, Linux and macOS, but note that so far I've only tested the Linux wheels, and I don't have access to a Mac to test the macOS wheels.
I'd be happy to make changes, e.g. if you'd prefer to use CircleCI as you already do (but note that apparantly CircleCI can't build Windows wheels: https://cibuildwheel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#usage), or if you'd like to build wheels for extra branches, or only certain tags etc.
We've found ourselves needing to install this package in a minimal container environment with no access to build tools like Cython or gcc, where the usual
pip install -e ...isn't an option. So I've built pre-compiled binary wheels.I figured others might have a similar use case, so if you're interested in building wheels too, this PR has the CI setup I used to build the wheels.
I based this off upstream yt's setup for building wheels: https://github.com/yt-project/yt/blob/main/.github/workflows/wheels.yaml but simplified to remove the upstream/yt-specific stuff, and updated to use PyPa's recommended pre-built action: https://cibuildwheel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/setup/#github-actions
The result is using PyPa's cibuildwheel package and their integration with Github Actions (every open source repo/user has 2000 free Actions minutes per month).
Currently it's configured to build Python 3.7 through to 3.10, on Win32/64, Linux and macOS, but note that so far I've only tested the Linux wheels, and I don't have access to a Mac to test the macOS wheels.
The resulting wheels are pretty small, less than 1M each! Here's the output from today: https://github.com/R2ZER0/yt_georaster/actions/runs/1553724929
I'd be happy to make changes, e.g. if you'd prefer to use CircleCI as you already do (but note that apparantly CircleCI can't build Windows wheels: https://cibuildwheel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#usage), or if you'd like to build wheels for extra branches, or only certain tags etc.