Paul Melnikow

I don't have exact numbers, but my impression is that Shields gets by on a tiny hosting budget, relying on optimized code, and avoiding any compute-intensive work. See [this conversation...

Yea… I'm with you on that. More transparency would help a lot. > I really enjoy doing performance tuning and optimisation, but unfortunately I have the feeling my skills in...

> We need more capacity, or confidence we can buy more capacity, before we add more scrapers. Our OpenCollective is now open, which means we can start to collect $10...

Shields is still not currently implementing new badges that require scraping and parsing websites. However we are offing a workaround: the [Endpoint badge][]. You can use it with [tools like...

That seems reasonable. I haven't looked at this part of the code in a while (if ever!) and I'm not sure how the expectations are implemented. I imagine they are...

Hi Syoyo! I maintain a Python library called [Lace](https://github.com/lace/lace) and also use [Trimesh](https://github.com/mikedh/trimesh). I'm evaluating tinyobjloader as a replacement loader that could work with both projects. (Lace has its own...

> You may need to add pybind11 files to `setup.py`(but I don't know how to do it). PR is always welcome. Okay, I will look into that! Regarding wheels, I...

Regarding the build issue for the source distribution, one issue is that the pybind11 sources are not shipped with the source distribution. This is the full contents: ``` . ├──...

I have a version which installs pybind11 at build time. It seems to be working well. https://github.com/syoyo/tinyobjloader/compare/master...metabolize:fix-python-sdist

I will! I’m just digging in now to one last complication which is making pybind11 available at build time without unnecessarily installing it at runtime. I also got cibuildwheel running...