[Biopython-dev] Introducing setup tools for building wheels

[Peter Cock]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Schmitt  Uwe (ID SIS)
<uwe.schmitt at id.ethz.ch> wrote:
>
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> Am 12.12.14 12:29 schrieb "Peter Cock" unter <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>:
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>>On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Schmitt  Uwe (ID SIS)
>><uwe.schmitt at id.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>
>>>
>>>...
>
>>> I modified BioPythons setup.py locally so that it uses
>>> setuptools  instead of distutils. This enables the creation
>>> of Python wheels which I prefer especially on Windows:
>>> wheels can be installed in virtualenvs which is not
>>> possible with the existing Windows installer.
>>>
>>> Is there some discussion about this ? I might contribute
>>> a pull request for my modifications.
>>
>>Oh not the Python packaging rabbit hole :(
>>
>>If you can modify setup.py to use setuptools WITHOUT
>>requiring it, so we don't need people to have setuptools
>>in order to install Biopython from source, that seems
>>worthwhile.
>
> I can try to implement a fallback to distutils if
> setuptools is not found.
>
> My changes are not yet in a separate branch, I just
> tested some modifications and was able to create a Windows
> wheel for a colleague. Before I wanted to check if
> my changes break anything or have some other unwanted
> consequences I wanted to ask here as I did now.
>
> So I will prepare a pull request,
>
> Regards, Uwe

Uwe's pull request:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/446

Can people have a look at that please, and try it out with a
few different setups (e.g. virtualenv).

Thanks,

Peter