[Biopython-dev] Using NumPy/SciPy/scikit-learn approach to building wheels

[Peter Cock]

Hello all,

It turns out to be quite easy to extend the new build system to make
windows EXE and MSI installers (although not to test them), but
something in the setup refused to upload the MSI files to Rackspace:

https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild/issues/39

For now I will leave the EXE installers here:

http://a365fff413fe338398b6-1c8a9b3114517dc5fe17b7c3f8c63a43.r19.cf2.rackcdn.com/

If there is interest, we could put them up on Biopython.org as in
previous releases (and I'm sure with a little more investigation
this could be done for the MSI versions as well).

For now, let's see what feedback we get from Windows users with
installing via pip.

Peter

The checksums for reference:

$ md5sum biopython-1.70*.exe
65b75b4fc26624921ad50e7995e8901c  biopython-1.70.win32-py2.7.exe
366376cc9767e5446dbad0c1b9d87f3a  biopython-1.70.win32-py3.4.exe
177259d083c8281e77e19062a6b18c65  biopython-1.70.win32-py3.5.exe
7130f29de2ee6ac12f63b0ed16b0aef2  biopython-1.70.win32-py3.6.exe
d0f767028b19ed1333834f18020dfd78  biopython-1.70.win-amd64-py2.7.exe
7e4e57461823fb5ea72a7cb50c63992b  biopython-1.70.win-amd64-py3.4.exe
6552735f126753989c6ec41a19764556  biopython-1.70.win-amd64-py3.5.exe
e2523f8bca07969107137ba62876eb03  biopython-1.70.win-amd64-py3.6.exe

$ shasum -a 256 biopython-1.70*.exe
90a302f496738b60918e529183d318cc1fb61191677314d8453eafa78858fbac
biopython-1.70.win32-py2.7.exe
10a1c412f8e541871539e1678d45eb5a4aa9c5231261624f52998d595469d7ad
biopython-1.70.win32-py3.4.exe
d526dbbb848a2e85fcdf2758010507ee02f3a99cee0a1c23a599d32d3976c66b
biopython-1.70.win32-py3.5.exe
affb77343b6c7b08710b35fb9b9b0011992a9c456a4a95183ecf7888c548eed9
biopython-1.70.win32-py3.6.exe
ed7aa36f63f6b48f0cade74dfdd7bc4ab46d03a7403204a83142988d5b37f3b3
biopython-1.70.win-amd64-py2.7.exe
7e6fa412fde1500adb3f53941d037865e4f9a4ce76355dfae88d8549efef2a72
biopython-1.70.win-amd64-py3.4.exe
7afc39455893c379cfbe6a6839ae9bf918910d6b5fbdd56a63992fd5b91c6209
biopython-1.70.win-amd64-py3.5.exe
26685dc0e0212086791244efb9961f1d9eebc2269c4098c8ab007f36baf3bf38
biopython-1.70.win-amd64-py3.6.exe




On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Perfect, thank you Markus.
>
> With the assistance of a colleague we could test the 32-bit
> Python 2.7 and 3.6 wheels.
>
> The hardest part was finding pip in order to run the command.
>
> For Python 2.7 we first had to upgrade Python as the early
> point releases did not include it (this is simpler than
> bootstrapping a pip installation), then it was available as:
>
> C:\Python27\Scripts\pip
>
> (Optionally including the .exe extension).
>
> For Python 3.6, it seems the default installation folder was
> a per-user app-data folder which is harder to describe...
>
> In neither case was pip on the path - so we're going to have
> to give slightly more guidance for Windows installation from
> a wheel.
>
> My colleague is of the view that continuing to offer EXE or MSI
> installers does significantly lower the barrier of entry - although
> as far as I can tell this would limit you to NumPy 1.10.2 (from
> December 2015):
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.10.2/
>
> For now I will get the wheels uploaded to PyPI...
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Peter