build binary wheels for people that don't have a c-compiler

[jswhit]

Right now we just put a source tarball on pypi, along with binary wheels for windows from Christoph Gohlke's site. We could set up a MacPython project to build macos x and linux wheels, as we do or netcdf4-python, or use cibuildwheel. Anyone here know anything about cibuildwheel?

[huard]

Note that when doing pip install cftime on an environment with no cython installed, the install process just hangs there and no feedback is returned to the user.

[rabernat]

Doesn't the conda-forge package meet this need?
https://github.com/conda-forge/cftime-feedstock

[jswhit]

That allows cftime to be installed with conda, but I don't think it allows creation of binary wheels that can be uploaded to pypi for installation with pip.

[jswhit]

The issue that @huard mentions above needs to be fixed before 1.0.3 is released. I have no idea at this point what causes it.

[ocefpaf]

The issue that @huard mentions above needs to be fixed before 1.0.3 is released. I have no idea at this point what causes it.

Not sure what version you are testing @huard but this was fixed a while back when we moved cython to the setup_requires.

Regarding wheels, I'm not familiar with it, but I believe multibuild is the way to go.

[jswhit]

I have not been able to reproduce the issue with pip hanging in an environment without cython that @huard reported. I will go ahead and release 1.0.3. I'll also ask @matthew-brett to create a MacPython/cftime-wheels project for us.

[huard]

I haven't been able to reproduce it either. The only guess I can make is that this was in a outdated conda environment with an old version of pip.

[ocefpaf]

I haven't been able to reproduce it either. The only guess I can make is that this was in a outdated conda environment with an old version of pip.

Probably, I don't recall in which version the setup_requires was added but it is kind of a new thing.

[jswhit]

@matthew-brett has kindly created https://github.com/MacPython/cftime-wheels for us, so linux and macosx wheels can now be built automatically.

[NotSqrt]

Will there be manylinux wheels for v1.0.3 ?
That would help bypass #34
Thanks !

[jswhit]

There will be as soon as @matthew-brett adds me to the cftime-wheels project so I can trigger a build.

[matthew-brett]

@jswhit - did you see my earlier message on that? Have you tried triggering a build?