Add wheel and windows builds on pypi

[bendtherules]

Pontoon on PyPi doesnt have wheel and other builds like .msi or .exe for windows.

Although the later ones are not that important, wheels are the new standard for python packaging and so, we should definitely use that. As they are pre-compiled, they are also easier to install in some cases.

Appveyor has a way of building stuffs within it and making those packages available for download called artifacts - which is already setup and available for each job. For eg, here is one https://ci.appveyor.com/project/duggan/pontoon/build/1.0.24/job/6f0truodogexy7ul/artifacts .

We can directly upload that during release to pypi or build it on dev machines using python setup.py bdist_wheel bdist_wininst bdist_msi. I am not sure if the windows builds are possible on linux machines. Also, we should build it using different major versions of Python.

[duggan]

I'm planning on having builds pushed to PyPI from Travis, which will cover the Linux builds; it looks like AppVeyor provides similar functionality for Windows. Will do them both at the same time.

[bendtherules]

Cool, cant wait for the next automated release. 😀

[duggan]

I have these mostly working in a branch now, so next release will contain wheels and .exe builds!

I've had trouble getting the MSI uploaded to PyPI, but that can be tackled separately.

[bendtherules]

What is the trouble with MSI? Are you trying it at testpypi?

Not having a msi is not a big problem though, so to say.

[bendtherules]

Also, I see pontoon-0.2.0.win-amd64.exe exists, but not the 32-bit version. Any trouble with that?

[duggan]

MSI upload at testpypi is returning errors, yes.

I've only been building the 64 bit versions while testing, I expect 32 bit will work ok.

[duggan]

Logs for the MSI push failures are here (python setup.py bdist_msi upload) and here (twine upload) if you want to have a look.

[bendtherules]

Yes, I am also getting the same error playing with a different package.

Seems like everyone has it and apparently, this is the solution https://github.com/schmir/xdistutils#the-bdist_msi_fixed-command . Install xdistutils and use python setup.py bdist_msi_fixed.

But I could not get it working. python setup.py bdist_msi_fixed gives me invalid command bdist_msi_fixed. You can give a try, too.

If things dont work after all, we should just keep it as a separate long-running bug and move on for now.

[duggan]

👍

[duggan]

Builds work, but the configure command still needs an overhaul before it's Windows compatible. Just dropping a well formatted config file would work, though needs to be documented at least.

[duggan]

There's a wheel for 0.2.1 on PyPI, though I still have to finish out work on the autobuilds for the Windows specific builds.