[Cython] Manylinux wheels for Cython

Matthew Brett matthew.brett at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 20:47:32 EST 2016


Hi,

I don't know whether y'all have been following over at distutils-sig,
but there's a new distutils PEP that defines a `manylinux` format for
Linux wheels that work on many different x86 Linux distributions:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0513/
https://github.com/pypa/manylinux

The latest version of pip will install these, if the client Linux
system is compatible with the manylinux spec:

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/

I've already built and used manylinux Cython wheels, which y'all are
welcome to test with:

pip install -f https://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/manylinux cython

(The wheels there don't have the right manylinux filenames yet, but
they have the same contents as the ones that would go up to pypi).

I've already had good use from these wheels in speeding up project
builds into docker containers and virtualenvs, and I'd love to upload
these to pypi.   I have permissions on pypi to do this, but I wanted
to check in with y'all first...

Cheers,

Matthew


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