Shipping 3.7 wheels

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 11:42 -0800, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 13:57 -0800, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> > > I /think/ packaging improvements in this cycle finally put us in position
> > > to offer binary wheels for Windows and OS X starting with the 3.7
> > release.
> > > (We can't offer binary wheels for Linux because, well, there still isn't
> > a
> > > good answer for binary wheel compatibility on Linux.) The advantage of
> > > binary wheels is we can upload them to PyPI and people can `pip install
> > > Mercurial` and get the C extensions without needing to have a working
> > > compile environment.
> > > 
> > > There /might/ be an issue with the hg version string. I think wheels are
> > > more strict about the version format and may not like our "+1"
> > annotation.
> > > This should be easily correctable with some setup.py muckery.
> > > 
> > > The bigger issue is how to produce and distribute them. I'm not sure what
> > > changes to the release process need to be made to support generating
> > wheels.
> > > 
> > > What needs to be done for us to produce wheels and upload them to PyPI as
> > > part of the release process?
> > 
> > I haven't the foggiest. I have a hacked[1] tool named twine in my release
> > script
> > and that's just about the sum total of my interaction with PyPI over the
> > past
> > decade.
> > 
> > Probably the best way forward is for someone (not it!) to make a test
> > package on PyPI to experiment with wheel uploads and report back.
> > 
> > [1] The capitalization of the package on PyPI and setup.py disagree
> > causing stock twine to puke.
> > 
> > 
> I created an account on the test pypi service and uploaded wheels for
> Windows. https://testpypi.python.org/pypi/mercurial
> 
> In theory you can point pip at this PyPI instance, but I haven't figured
> out how to do that yet. (`pip -i https://testpypi.python.org/pypi/ install
> mercurial` is complaining with "Could not find a version that satisfies the
> requirement install (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for
> install"). But e.g. `pip install
> https://testpypi.python.org/packages/cp27/m/mercurial/mercurial-3.7rc1-cp27-no
> ne-win_amd64.whl`
> should work.
> 
> Ping me with your test PyPI username and I'll add you as a maintainer for
> the "mercurial" project there (they do wipe the database every so often).

Umm.. why? I'm not able to/going to build wheels?

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