Blocked: dev: Publish Python wheels

[mihaic]

[mihaic]

See the Matplotlib setup: https://github.com/MacPython/matplotlib-wheels#how-it-works

[Edit 2017-10-30] They really use that repo, although it is hosted by a different organization: http://matplotlib.org/devel/release_guide.html#building-binaries

[danielsuo]

This looks like a popular option

[mihaic]

cibuildwheel seems too simple to believe. If you want to try it and it works, I'm all for it!

[danielsuo]

Ignore earlier commit. I'll check it out tomorrow during the long meeting :)

[danielsuo]

Building wheels is OK, but installing in virtual environments with compiled code not so much.

cibuildwheel is doing something really simple: for each OS / version of python, install dependencies, build wheel, inject / repair shared library paths (via auditwheel and delocate for Linux and MacOS, respectively).

However, these library paths get messed up once you try to install the wheel in a virtual environment. We'll need to investigate this more thoroughly.

[danielsuo]

A longer discussion of the issue here

[danielsuo]

FYI: work in progress in pull request #314

[mihaic]

This issues is blocked by the lack of MPI4PY wheels.

[danielsuo]

Is this still an issue we want to keep open?

[mihaic]

I think so. PyPI is still the best way to distribute Python code and wheels are easiest to use, so we should keep an eye out for possible solutions.