Re: [devpi-dev] Re: Automatic building of wheels? (discuss ;-)

Sorry, no bug filed, just the explanation in my second comment on the PR. On 13 October 2014 09:24, Paul Moore wrote:

On 12 October 2014 23:16, Richard Jones wrote:

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On 10 October 2014 01:26, Paul Moore wrote:

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On Thursday, 10 July 2014 02:52:31 UTC+1, Richard Jones wrote:

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Is it possible (or desirable) that devpi be able to trigger builds of wheels for packages that it caches? I realise it'd be possible as part

of a

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Jenkins trigger for an upload, but this is for cached packages from PyPI.

What I would like is actually somewhat simpler. I'd like to be able to set things up so that whenever devpi serves an egg or wininst file, it also serves the equivalent wheel (by running wheel convert). The "obvious" way to do this would be whenever devpi mirrors a project from PyPI it (or a hook/plugin) runs wheel convert on any exe and egg files, and caches the resulting wheels as if they had come from PyPI.

I must have not been clear but that was basically what I was asking for :)

[with the caveat I mentioned: timing could be tricky if the build takes a while]

Sorry, you were clear, it's just that I then read the referenced issue which confused me (as it went onto talking about whitelists), and by the time I got back to posting here I'd managed to misread what you wrote...

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I've since used devpi-builder with some success. It avoids the timing issue by having the wheel build be a separate process. Unfortunately a bug in pip (PR still under review https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/1965) meant that devpi-builder is less useful than it could be (it currently requires versions in requirements.txt to be pinned).

I saw the link, but never followed up on it. Will do so now, thanks!

Is there an issue filed related to that PR? I can't follow the PR in isolation, but I'll take a look at it.

Paul