"manylinux_2_34_aarch64" wheel request

[gabor-one]

Feature Request / Improvement

Hi Everyone!

Is there any reason why manylinux_2_34_aarch64 wheel has not been built? Can we add it?

Reason: pyiceberg/avro/decoder_fast.pyi is not compiling in slim ARM/Linux container images and the Python native implementation leaks memory. I'll open a separate ticket about this.

[Fokko]

It looks like they are still alpha? https://github.com/pypa/manylinux?tab=readme-ov-file#manylinux_2_34-almalinux-9-based---alpha

[Fokko]

Our current version of CI buildwheel seems to support it: https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel?tab=readme-ov-file#v2230

[kevinjqliu]

@gabor-one would you like to contribute adding this? heres where to build the wheels https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/blob/278f7643cd62f9e14496177632cb48d9b52e553d/.github/workflows/pypi-build-artifacts.yml#L64-L77

[Fokko]

I was also playing around with this last week, but it it turns out that it will blow up the tests up to 2h+: https://github.com/Fokko/iceberg-python/actions/runs/14219816306/job/39844845274

This is because most Python packages that have a native extension are not compiled for manylinux_2_34_aarch64, so our testing cycle will build the local extension as part of the tests.

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