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bytecodealliance
Publish wheels to GitHub releases
Before splitting out wasmtime-py into its own repository, we also published the wheels to the Wasmtime releases. It'd be nice if we could do that again in this repo.
Something like this sounds like a good idea. But what's the exact problem this would be solving? Is it so users don't need to download the Wasmtime library? Having to use the download-wasmtime.py script is certainly less than ideal.
Do you mean that the Wasmtime shared library used to be included in this package's predecessor's release? I'm late to the party here: where was wasmtime-py split out from?
On which note, I'm wondering what other packages in Python do, such as Lupa (lets you embed Lua in Python) and whether they always download the binary library, have that as an option, or have the user set an environment variable or otherwise tell the package where the binary is.
It looks like Lupa has you do something similar to the current wasmtime-py.
Oh I don't believe this is related to the wasmtime shared library at all, this is just about having artifacts in more places. I agre with @tschneidereit that it'd be best to upload these to GitHub Releases like we did previously. I don't think they'll be used all that often but it can't hurt!
I just realize that perhaps this is perhaps mostly useful with a "moving tag release" (a Term I just made up) like the dev release we have for Wasmtime. But since we don't have that for wasmtime-py, maybe there's less value in this than I initially thought.
Ah, I misunderstood what this ticket was about. I think that's because I've never published a wheel, and forgot that these days they're not just about packaging binaries, but about replacing the old way of distributing Python packages, to some extent.
Something like this sounds like a good idea. But what's the exact problem this would be solving?
My interest in wheels is that I would like:
pip install wasmtime
To Just Work on as many platforms as possible (macOS, Windows, various Linuxes) even if the user doesn't have a C compiler or other supporting libraries and build tools installed.
That way if I add wasmtime as a dependency for any of my other projects I won't have to talk my users through the process of setting up a build environment!
Theoretically that's already the case, but @simonw did that pip command not work for you?
(this is a pretty old issue and isn't so relevant any more and may actually be able to simply be closed)