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mapnik
Releases
CONTRIBUTING.md states to hit up @flippmoke for new releases.
Right now there are no git tags
What blockers are there to having a release?
cc @woodpeck
Yes, any known-building tag would be nice. At the moment HEAD is broken, and there is nothing to do but try random changesets until it builds.
I won't lie, I simply do not have anytime at all to manage python-mapnik currently. I hope that others might take up the torch and work more on the release process around python mapnik. Because Mapbox does not have a strategic use for python mapnik currently it is definitely not reviewed or used as much as it should be!
There is a complex process to make a wheel which was only working for python 2 and try to package binaries in a working way. This is something that would require a lot of thought to properly implement for all versions of python.
I think a 5% solution is fine, just document what changeset to use to build against the stable mapnik release. Is there actually a point where this repo built against 3.0.xx? Right now it looks like the HEAD is meant to build against some development branch of mapnik.