[Wheel-builders] Manylinux, OSX wheel building framework for travis-ci

[Philippe Ombredanne]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Philippe Ombredanne
> <pombredanne at nexb.com> wrote:
>> last month, Matthew Brett wrote:
>>> I've been experimenting with a submodule to support building and
>>> testing OSX and manylinux wheels from the same repository, using
>>> travis-ci.
>>> The README explains the idea :
>>> https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild#utilities-for-building-on-travis-ci-with-osx-and-linux
>>
>> One thing: I am not convinced with your configuration using git
>> modules. Could there be a simpler way either by vendoring your scripts
>> in the repo that needs to be built or packaging the scripts .... as a
>> wheel or sdist somehow?
>
> The code is nearly all bash scripts, and I suspect you'll run into
> trouble unless the scripts are in a sub-directory of your travis
> build, so the submodule seemed a natural way to get you there.    For
> a wheel or other Python package, I'd only be using the Python
> packaging system to unpack the code somewhere, and make that
> 'somewhere' findable by travis-ci, so it seems like extra complexity
> for not much gain.   Is there something specific you were worried
> about with the submodule?

Just a personal distate for their complexity nothing I can overcome.


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Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne