Provide wheels

[oberstet]

In particular on Windows (and also OSX), it would be nice if py-setproctitle published wheels, as that make installation pain free.

[offero]

+1

[dvarrazzo]

@oberstet, @offero: will you buy me the hardware to create such packages?

[oberstet]

@dvarrazzo fair enough;)

There is a free (for open-source projects) CI packaging service here: https://www.appveyor.com/ which supports building Windows wheels: http://python-packaging-user-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/appveyor/

I just stumbled across this now that I searched for triggered by your question - so I don't know if it works well. But at least they claim. And I will check myself now, since we could use that for CI testing on Windows ourselves (Crossbar.io / Autobahn).

[scopatz]

Also, note there is now a conda package available so you can just

conda install -c conda-forge setproctitle

Conda Forge uses the CI services under the hood.

[oberstet]

so I need another wheel (conda on client box) to install the wheel? ha, pun;) if so, thx but .. no;)

[ssbarnea]

Yep the conda-forge method was the only one that worked for me and I had to switch my entire Python distribution in order to install setproctitle. That's clearly not so cool and I think that the package should build even on the official Python.org distribution (in addition to having published wheels).

First step, please publish Windows wheels.

[dvarrazzo]

@ssbarnea, or whoever else is concerned: please provide a patch so that I can type

make wheels

which would use whatever online service or whatever hardware you will pay support for, and ends up with a wheel compiled and install on PyPI which then you can enjoy.

[dalito]

FYI: Windows wheels are also available on Christoph Gohlke´s site (from py27 to py 35)
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#setproctitle

[giampaolo]

@dvarrazzo you can automatize this as I did with psutil after I began being tired of doing it myself.
You can use appveyor. The idea is more or less the following:

• you set up appveyor so that it runs on every push (you can run tests) and also creates exe / wheels for all supported python versions
• on every successful build appveyor will store the exes / wheels as "artifacts", which really is their term for "file storage"
• on every new release you download the exes wheels from appveyor on your OSX/Linux box and upload them on PYPI with twine

It's a bit tricky to get right but I automatized all this in psutil so you can go there and take a look.

[giampaolo]

...or you can wait for me to write a blog post about it. =)

[fzumstein]

are there still plans @giampaolo to setup appveyer for building the wheels?

[dvarrazzo]

FYI, next release of setproctitle, 1.2, will be distributed with binary packages for linux.

Binary packages for OSX and for Windows can be created, but I will not work on them for free. If you would like to sponsor their creation you are welcome to get in touch.

[dvarrazzo]

FYI, I have set up actions to build wheel packages on linux.

They are delicious.

I see that github actions supports building window packages too: funding is welcome for windows and osx packages creation.

[dvarrazzo]

Windows packages released.

[hoffmang9]

See #96 from Chia https://chia.net

[alexprengere]

Would it be possible to release wheels for Python-3.10 as well?

[dvarrazzo]

@alexprengere There is something rotten in the images that the CI has just produced. Packages were created but I don't seem able to upload them on PyPI.

In the meantime, in other projects, I have tested with cibuildwheel and it worked nicely. So I think I will just drop our pipeline in this form and use that project instead.

[dvarrazzo]

Build system moved to cibuildwheel. It took two days. However, most wheels are built now. Enjoy setproctitle 1.2.3