Add wheels on Pypi

[chezou]

Since wheel format is standard for distributing Python packages, it would be nice if we can get wheel from Pypi.

[zackw]

I agree, we should have both wheels and official source releases on PyPI. @SamuraiT do you have any plans for this or should I look into it?

[SamuraiT]

nice to have it. please look into it!

[zackw]

I've successfully uploaded a source distribution of 0.996.1 to PyPI. Wheels to follow as soon as I figure out how to persuade Travis to build them (might be a couple more days, there's a tool for this but I anticipate some nasty remote debugging).

[chezou]

I've succeeded to build manylinux1 wheel on travis-ci. https://github.com/chezou/mecab-python3/tree/release-wheel
Currently working on OSX wheel build.

[miinhtn]

I've succeeded to build manylinux1 wheel on travis-ci. https://github.com/chezou/mecab-python3/tree/release-wheel
Currently working on OSX wheel build.

@chezou do you have any plan to build wheel package on linux (ubuntu 18)

[chezou]

@miinhtn I've sent a PR and once it will be merged, you can get a wheel for linux. I'm waiting for review.

[miinhtn]

@chezou actually I visited your github and downloaded the wheel file. It worked (in my simple test) like charm on OSX. 👍 but wonder how it gonna be on linux

[zackw]

@chezou I don't expect to have time to review your patches properly until next week. Sorry for the delay, day job is in crunch mode right now.

[chezou]

Thanks @zackw for taking care of it. I didn't mean to rush you. Feel free to tell me your advice since there would be some design discussion.

Anyway, I understand your effort is volunteer based one but tell me if there's anything I can help.

[zackw]

Release candidate wheels are now available for Mac and Linux at https://test.pypi.org/project/mecab-python3/0.996.2rc2/ , please test them. Thank you everyone for your patience. We plan to make a new official release in the next couple of weeks.

Windows wheels are in the works but I can't give any time frame for them, sorry.

[zackw]

0.996.2 has been released with wheels for Mac and Linux. I am going to close this issue and make a new one specifically for Windows wheels.