[Wheel-builders] [Distutils][ANN] Python 3.7 now available in the manylinux docker images

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
> On 15/06/2018 23:42, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks to Emanuele Gaifas [1], the manylinux docker images now include
>> Python 3.7 (currently the rc1 release), so if you want you can now
>> start building and uploading wheels for 3.7 ahead of its expected
>> release on June 27 [2].
>>
>> -n
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/pull/196
>> [2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/
>>
>
> I just tried out the latest manylinux1 image along with updated scripts from
> matthew-brett/multibuild and find my wheels seem to have shrunk eg
>
> reportlab-3.4.42-cp27-cp27m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
>
> old: 3796941
> new: 2516821
>
> looking in side the wheels it looks like the .so files have been slimmed.
> Does anyone know if that is just because they no longer include debugging
> information etc etc?

If you haven't built in a while, this could well be the result of
merging https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild/pull/140 - which
introduced stripped Linux binaries.

Cheers,

Matthew